The UK government’s plans will prioritise drones and Ukraine is providing expertise and the opportunity to test them on a real battlefield.
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Efficiency savings can be easier to find on paper than to achieve in real life.
Two defence resignations come at a time of turmoil for the prime minister.
The UK has little in the way of land-based anti-aircraft and anti-missile defences.
What about the moral case for helping poorer countries with their development?
It is possible that Tehran has assumed British complicity in the launching of Operation Epic Fury.
A whistleblower has raised safety concerns about working inside Porton Down, which has a long history of conducting dangerous biochemical research.
A new report suggests Russia’s foreign policy strategy is to ‘stop worrying and love the disorder’.
Britain and other European allies could be publicly pressured by Trump to support any intervention on Israel’s side.
The UK is betting big on AI in defence to become “ten times more lethal”.
AI has limited military functions that still require a huge amount of human input.
In addition to practical measures of investment and expansion, the review lays out the more difficult changes that are needed to respond to security challenges.
The future of Nato is in the balance ahead of a big meeting this month.
Has the UK’s dependence on the US become a Faustian pact?
For the foreseeable future a conventional approach to defence, perhaps backed by British and French nuclear assets, remains the most realistic option for Europe.
Overseas development has always fallen in and out of favour between governments. But this feels different – and terminal.
There are also domestic reasons why the government may want to go down this route.
Years of spending cuts have removed the ability of British forces to prosecute a war against a peer adversary for an extended time.
Enormous sums of venture capital money and influence is pouring into a defence industry which is being reshaped in the image of Silicon Valley.
The election of Donald Trump as US president puts the UK in a tricky position on many global issues. But even beyond concerns about Nato’s stability or the special relationship, the UK has serious internal…
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