Vitaly Shevchenko of BBC Monitoring joins Natia Seskuria to explore the implications of a radiation warning found on a downed Russian drone.

Supporting Ukraine is self-interest, not charity: Russia threatens democracies well beyond Europe, and Ukraine’s battlefield innovation and civilian resilience hold lessons for the West.

Following the publication of new national security and defence strategies, the US has reduced its material commitment to Europe's conventional defence. Its ongoing force posture review will bring furt...

Many past wars show that nations that successfully adopt and integrate new military technologies gain an advantage over those that fall behind in the race for innovation. The use of drones in Russia’s...

With NATO members now under almost-daily alert for Russian drone incursions, it’s time to find a new answer.

More structured and scaled-up defence cooperation, backed with EU funding, will benefit both Europe and Ukraine

European NATO countries are wrestling with the possibility of U.S. disengagement from the alliance. With the continent’s security increasingly uncertain, governments must restore the credibility of th...

Defence industrial bases are vital for security of supply to the armed forces. Forgoing domestic production risks industrial dependency, which describes the need for imports due to a lack of industria...

The Foundation for Strategic Research (FRS) is France's main centre of expertise on international security and defence issues.

The world is at a critical inflection point, where a combination of ever more powerful AI systems, accelerating proliferation, and a corresponding norms vacuum is setting up a dangerous set of conditi...

EU defence funding is set to grow in the next spending cycle, making better accountability essential before final budget rules are agreed

Canada is turning to non-US suppliers as it seeks to diversify its defence-industrial relationships, although some recent major procurement selections reflect the absence of clear US options. The effort to reduce reliance on US suppliers could nevertheless put Canadian industry participation in the US defence market at risk.

Deeper EU-Ukraine defence industrial integration can strengthen Ukraine's ability to resist Russia while bolstering Europe's defences. Combining Kyiv's innovation and expertise with European capital, ...

At their 2025 summit in The Hague, NATO Allies agreed on a new 5% defence spending goal: by 2035, 3.5% of each country’s GDP should be allocated to hard defence and 1.5% to defence-related projects. W...

Allies are spending more, building stronger defense industries, and deepening cooperation—but the next era of burden sharing will depend on collective industrial capacity, not just defense budgets.

Europe’s security increasingly depends on resilience, not simply military strength, as energy, infrastructure, industry and supply chains become strategic assets.The Nordic countries are demonstrating...

The 2025 Defence Industrial Strategy casts universities as suppliers of graduates and research. To deliver it, they must become part of the machinery itself.

This chapter shows how Central and Eastern European states are playing an increasingly important role in the evolving European defence-industrial ecosystem, albeit with some caveats.

General David Petraeus discusses autonomous warfare, drone technology and the military transformation driven by Ukraine.

Europe should urgently strengthen Ukraine’s air defences as Russia intensifies its long-range strikes. Increasing supplies, expanding European and Ukrainian production, and developing new capabilities...

Recent wars show that the side able to replenish interceptors fastest will shape the military balance. The United States and Europe should turn surge spending into durable capacity through predictable...

What would European defence look like if NATO were to disband or become ineffective? In the latest paper in CEPR's Europe 2050 series, Daniel Fiott (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) treats this as a seriou...

European countries need to raise at least an additional €1 trillion to meet their NATO commitment to raise core defence spending to 3.5% of GDP by 2035 and an additional 1.5% for defence-related infrastructure and resilience. While some allies are racing ahead, several major European nations are falling behind because of national fiscal constraints. There is, hence, an urgent need for more resources than many EU countries’ budgets can provide at a time when government borrowing costs have risen to multi-decade highs.

Going without notice until they are not there, batteries are increasingly critical to Defence, but a steady supply is far from assured.

What equipment to buy, what to build, and how to use the same remain key issues for Berlin as it works to achieve its deep-strike missile ambitions.

Advancing the inclusion of SMEs in the European Defence Technological and Industrial Base

Such companies should be bound into European industrial ecosystems to help reduce foreign dependencies in critical capabilities.

Following NATO's summit in Ankara, Europe must move beyond capability development. It is time to assume leadership for defence planning, rehearse for fighting with less US support, and ensure coherenc...

This paper examines the extent to which Greece has integrated European Union capability development instruments into its national defence policy and administration. Focusing on five core instruments (...

Reforming European Security