Financing is an important yet overlooked element of Russian sabotage in Europe: it can act as both a facilitator and a tool of response. Russian sabotage covers a range of activity, from intensive ...

As digital systems become more interdependent and concentrated, a growing number of ‘ordinary’ components quietly turn into de facto critical infrastructure. In that hybrid threat landscape, ...

From a conflict expected to be over in days, four years of battle followed Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The first thing to note is that the war is not over yet. By early January 2026, ...

The US operation to remove Maduro succeeded despite fundamental ambiguity about what cyber delivered but that opacity has strategic consequences. On 3 January 2026, US forces conducted Operation ...

In 2020, RUSI published papers on the potential threats posed to Western forces by Russian and Chinese combat air capabilities and ground-based air defence (GBAD) systems. Since these studies were ...

If the US no longer abides by rules, how does it expect revisionist states to do so? In the first week of January 2026, the world watched as one extraordinary moment followed another, notably the US ...

Disorder podcast hosts and RUSI Associate Fellows Jason Pack and Arthur Snell are joined by Jane Kinninmont and RUSI's Jonathan Eyal for this live episode.

A conversation with Mark Neville, reflecting on more than three years of combining art with humanitarian support for communities affected by the war in Ukraine. Following Russia's full-scale invasion ...

Since its signing in 2014, the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement has faced some delays in its implementation. However, with Beijing showing no signs of curtailing its aggressive behaviour in the ...

The war in Ukraine has diverted Russia’s resources and attention away from its own critical domestic security issues, creating uneven gaps in its ability to address terrorism, corruption, regional ...

While the US and the UK attempt to contain Houthi attacks in the Bab al-Mandab and Red Sea, Somali pirates have made a daring comeback off the Horn of Africa. It is tempting to draw a link between the ...

After more than a decade of the largest war in Europe since the Second World War, the West can no longer ignore the fact that the tipping point of the global balance of power lies in Ukraine. While ...