“As the saying goes, what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, and so the BVI should take this opportunity to emerge stronger and put to bed the reputational issues that still dog the islands,” Mr.

For a long time, gulf countries saw “Iran as the biggest destabilizing force in the region,” and a threat they needed to counter, said H.A. Hellyer, senior fellow in geopolitics, international ...

The Iranians might decide that the only way to prevent future military attacks on its territory is not only to reconstitute the programme, but to push toward weaponisation,” said Darya Dolzikova, a ...

The idea is the prime minister writes them out four times because there is one letter that goes in the safe of each submarine as it goes on patrol." ...

I think that all of these reports indicate that there are definite attempts being made to get some sort of political dividend out of the last two weeks....Iran was in a very difficult position and ...

What we really stress in the findings is the fact that it’s a certain make or model today, but if that gets engineered out [with technological advances to counter theft], or the demand shifts, it will ...

A conversation with Ingrid Southworth, UK Deputy Permanent Representative to NATO and Lt Gen Sir Ian Cave, UK Military ...

The AI arms race is definitely ‘gathering speed’. What about the information wars? ‘Countries that are very good at AI could ...

When export controls are seen as a tool to limit competitors’ technology advancements, they can have unintended consequences.

Trevor Taylor, at defence think tank Rusi, meanwhile, expects European governments to fund sovereign capabilities that can reduce their reliance on an unpredictable US. He says European governments ...

Elijah Glantz, the report’s lead researcher, said organised crime groups had “shopping lists” of makes and models, and vehicle-specific technology to bypass security systems.

This Occasional Paper provides an analysis of vehicle theft in the UK, including trends, responses and challenges.