The China-Cook Island's Comprehensive Strategic Partnership draws the island nation into a rising competition in the pacific ...

It's also a question, particularly for the European Union, around trust in the Euro. If you invest and hold your central bank reserves in Europe and they get confiscated by the European Union, are you ...

James Sullivan, director of Cyber and Tech at defence think tank Rusi, notes there are also some questions around cyberspace. "China's activities in cyberspace appear to be more strategically and ...

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Disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration following the dissolution of the PKK will be a process with no recent ...

There is a risk of drawing the wrong conclusions about Chinese and Western air capabilities from the recent clashes if Indian ...

Professor Malcolm Chalmers, deputy director general of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), warned that moving too rapidly to achieve the 3 per cent target -such as trying to achieve it during ...

Matthew Savill of the Royal United Services Institute think-tank, said: “Given the existing pressures in the budget, and the need to rebuild the foundations of defence, it’s very unlikely that the ...

Income tax currently raises 11 per cent of national income. So this extra 1 per cent for defence could be financed by increasing income tax revenue by 10 per cent." ...

The long-awaited Strategic Defence Review can lead to significant change in the Armed Forces if it moves beyond previous ...

The review majors on 'warfighting readiness' and a 'whole of society approach', yet, unlike European allies such as Germany, Norway, Sweden, Estonia and Lithuania, the government has decided not to ...

While the Review points to the need to recapitalise defence and invest in new technologies, it is less clear about the timescale for getting there. In part, this reflects concerns about the capacity ...