The suspension of operations at Iraq’s Al-Sheeb border crossing on 21 October 2026 is a test of Baghdad’s capacity to ...

Scope: This assessment examines Iran’s protected military infrastructure and capacity to recover usable combat power, the consequences for the Middle East and Europe, and the strategic outlook through ...

The principal strategic opportunity in the stratosphere is persistent sensing and communications that can reinforce a wider military network. The decisive test is whether platforms can deliver useful ...

Scope: This assessment compares publicly documented rendezvous, proximity operations and orbital servicing capabilities in ...

Scope: This dossier assesses Italy’s semiconductor value chain within the EU-27 and against Taiwan, South Korea, the United ...

International developments nevertheless demonstrate that the wider technological transition is substantive: Australia disclosed additional undersea payload integration on 19 October 2026; the United ...

Scope — This assessment examines Russia’s military and coercive posture from the High North through Finland and the Baltic region to Poland, asks whether the observable Russian strategic trajectory ...

Europe’s automotive crisis is no longer a cyclical dispute over sales, wages or factory utilisation. It is becoming a contest over who will control the continent’s next industrial platform. As ...

The strategic debate surrounding theater extended deterrence centers on distinguishing three structurally distinct dimensions: theater designation, geographic deployment, and operational execution.

Since the full-scale Russian invasion in February 2022, Ukraine’s communications infrastructure has been systematically targeted. Missile strikes destroyed mobile towers, fibre-optic lines were ...

BLUF: European port security is producing displacement, not elimination, of maritime trafficking risk. Controls concentrated at Rotterdam, Antwerp and other major terminals increase the relative ...

BLUF: AI-CSAM refers to the use of generative artificial intelligence to create, manipulate, or simulate child sexual abuse material (CSAM) – Generative AI is not replacing contact abuse; it is ...