Artists and activists participate in a Campaign to Stop Killer Robots event outside Germany’s parliament, February 2020. © 2020 Human Rights Watch When I was a child, my parents used to buy me the Eagle…
In a relatively unsafe world, the last thing we all need is for some unstable country or group to get hold of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and, worse still, threaten another country or group…
There are, I was once told, two types of traitor. There is the idealist, keen to achieve his (or her) political aims at huge personal risk, seeking success as the only reward. And there is…
PART ONE “Qui desiderat pacem, praeperat bellum,” wrote the fourth century Roman military writer Flavius Vegetius Renatus (normally remembered simply as Vegetius). It means, as if you didn’t know, “Let he (or she) who desires…
The new ICBM missile to replace the Soviet-era Voevoda © mil.ru There’s no doubt, according to expert observers, that Russia’s current military capacity is far ahead of what it was just a decade ago. Given…
On the one hand it’s easy to see why the United States and its NATO allies in Europe would want to get together from time to time to check that their military forces can work…
In the deepening conflict between Iran and the United States, the European Union seems well and truly caught in the middle. In Brussels, talks appear to be the only feasible option at the moment. But…
Eurofighter typhoon fgr.mk 4 © SAC Cathy Sharples In May 1993, when the Maastricht Treaty was put to the Danish people for a second time, British Europhobes got involved in campaigning for its rejection. Again. …
On January 1, the Polish army took charge of NATO’s Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF) placing thousands of soldiers on standby and ready to deploy within days. Poland takes over from Germany, which…
A global threat requires, in principle at least, a global response. But although North Korea has long been cast as a grave threat to regional as well as international security, the European Union and the…
“Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship,” said US President Harry S. Truman during a lecture at Columbia University in 1959. Maybe we in the West simply have inefficient governments and that…
Picture : President Barack Obama signing of documents for a nuclear arms treaty with Russia in 2011©White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy) “We can only hope that this history-making agreement will not be an end…
SubSea Craft reveals the VICTA Class – a revolutionary Diver Delivery Unit SubSea Craft has revealed the full details of its VICTA Class Diver Delivery Unit (DDU) at Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI). This revolutionary…
Defence Equipment and Support’s Technology Office intends to place a circa 2-year, single sourced contract, of approximate value £10M, for a UK programme to undertake design studies, research, development, analysis and experimentation relating to high-Mach…
The NATO Communications and Information (NCI) Agency is planning to release 1.4 billion EUR in business opportunities in the next 18 months. As NATO’s tech and cyber leader, the Agency works to deliver technology and…
A medium altitude long endurance RPAS drone is being used by the Icelandic maritime authorities to enhance the maritime picture over its Exclusive Economic Zone, the service follows a request made by the Icelandic coast…
