The Defence Academy of the United Kingdom has extended its academic provision contracts with King’s College London and Cranfield University for a further four years, continuing defence and security education opportunities for military personnel, UK industry, civil servants and international partners to 2031. This continued academic provision will support efforts to maintain safety and security in an increasingly insecure global environment.

This seminar explores the Chinese Communist Party's ties to criminal networks and their use of cybercrime tactics like ransomware.

Drones have become the new face of modern warfare, dominating headlines as Russia and Ukraine trade near-daily aerial strikes.But unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAVs) are wreaking havoc in another of the...

When the US president doesn’t accept intelligence he doesn’t like, where does that leave the UK?

Military Analyst Professor Michael Clarke explains whether European leaders have any influence over a possible deal made by Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump during their meeting in Alaska.

The Commander of the United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) - General Anthony Cotton - emphasised the importance of the next generation in meeting future global security challenges during a rece...

Armed forces may have to be pulled off existing commitments in order to be deployed should Trump manage to strike a peace deal for Ukraine, former MoD official warns

It’s hard to call the collision of two multi-thousand-ton military ships “fortunate,” but that’s exactly what analysts are saying about the incident in the South China Sea this week that left a China ...

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The UK has successfully trialed high-altitude balloons which can conduct intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions.

Maj-Gen Paul Tedman, the head of UK Space Command, says the threat of war in space is 'here, now' - and growing

Syria’s caretaker government is struggling to contain violence in Sweida and Latakia, exposing cracks in authority, legitimacy, and national unity.

The US president says he has deployed submarines closer to Russia — but this would only make the boats more vulnerable to attack

In this Defence in Depth article, Tara Zammit questions whether the Strategic Defence Review delivers meaningful innovation—or overlooks the people and culture needed to sustain it.

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Join senior leaders from finance, industry and government to explore how economic security can strengthen national defence in a time of rising geopolitical risk.

Explore India’s shifting Indo-Pacific strategy in a potential second Trump era with Dr Jagannath Panda in this timely roundtable discussion.

Join this CSSS hosted panel discussion with Matthew Ford, reflecting on war in the smartphone age

The Nato summit showed up an increasing divide between Europe and the US, and their military priorities.

Westminster has relaxed planning laws for a new type of nuclear reactor. But challenges loom for the developers of these projects

To secure his political survival, Netanyahu has ditched the status quo to become a radical revisionist of the worst kind.

Why Trump's about-face on integrating foreign fighters into the Syrian military makes sense.

The nuclear-armed neighbours are expected to increase their use of unmanned aerial vehicles. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Taiwan’s so-called porcupine strategy aims to deter a Chinese invasion—or at least stall it until U.S. support arrives.

NATO has featured a paper co-authored by Dr Bence Nemeth, Senior Lecturer in the Defence Studies Department, as the key case study in a new handbook advising all its institutions and member states on ...

Reinoud Leenders, King’s College London & Ali Aljasem, Utrecht University When Syria witnessed largely peaceful mass protests and revolutionary mobilization between March 2011 and the end of 2012, the...

Jon Alterman speaks with Dr. Craig Larkin to unpack different approaches taken to reconstruction and reconciliation after violence in the Middle East.