The targeting of water supply is being normalised by cognitive warfare. More must be done to reverse this. On 7 March 2026, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi began the enabling information ...

Classified Russian government document revelations add to concerns that the adversarial nation’s undersea threat is both acute and invested towards a further-reaching campaign. In recent years, ...

The Financial Action Task Force’s plans for cross-border payment transparency are welcome, but this ambition without safeguards may undermine financial system access. In late April, the Financial ...

The abundance of oil deposits in Somalia has lured interest from Turkey, deepening the Mogadishu-Ankara relationship. In August 2011, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his family travelled to ...

Russia’s partnership with North Korea could advance Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons programme through technical aid and proliferation financing, particularly in the absence of global controls. Russia’s ...

The UAE has emerged as Israel’s most operationally significant Arab partner. But, for now, the relationship is no guarantee of wider regional integration. On 4 May, an Israeli-operated Iron Dome ...

Sanctions limit adversaries’ technology access. In designing them, UK policy makers need to also consider sanctions’ future effect on cyber espionage and effects operations. Against this backdrop, it ...

The risk that AI-enabled vulnerability discovery tools will be misused is real. How can the UK minimise its strategic dependence and stay capable in cyber defence? To put this into perspective, ...

Takaichi is doubling down on the strategic bet made by Abe, that the benefits of a more self-reliant defence posture and engaged international security role outweigh the costs. The details of this ...

The efforts by the US and Iran to interfere with the flow of oil and gas from the Gulf mirror each other in their intent to affect any final settlement. The strategic end states are becoming clearer.

Despite an increasing focus on SMEs, effective industrial mobilisation must also better harness the power of traditional defence firms. Andrea Thompson from BAE Systems explains how. Read the ...

This framework and aide-mémoire present a framework for integrating gender and identity analysis into the assessment of and response to hybrid threats. RUSI's project on Enhancing NATO Counter Hybrid ...