ChatGPT will soon remove restrictions which were put in place to minimise its more humanlike features. This is bad news for security, worsening an AI already rife with security issues including ...

Iraq's elections make ponderous a status quo Washington and Tehran seek to preserve; manoeuvring politicians make work for external powers contesting the fate of Iraq's Iran-backed militia groups.

Critical vulnerabilities in multirotor uncrewed aerial system (MUAS) supply chains, particularly the West's reliance on Chinese-origin components and materials, present risks in future conflicts. This ...

Russia has reportedly modified its Iskander 9M723 ballistic missiles making them harder to intercept. The causes are unclear, but the impact on Ukraine is not. Recently, there have been a series of ...

Far from making a ‘reckless’ commitment likely to escalate tension, by checking Beijing’s hubristic tendencies, Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi may have done us all a favour. On 7 October 2025, ...

Jessica Davis, Stephen Reimer and host Tom Keatinge discuss the Financial Action Task Force’s recent report on terrorist financing. In this latest episode of the STR podcast, host Tom Keatinge caught ...

Cloud computing has become a fundamental capability for European national security and defence. Governments increasingly depend on cloud services to strengthen national resilience, modernise legacy ...

The move may reflect Labour's preference to recentralise policing to deal with a strained system – suggesting it could be about to enact some radical changes. 'This is a defining period for policing ...

In a visit that consolidated bilateral stability between the US and Japan, economic matters held more focus than issues of defence for President Trump. Takaichi proclaimed that Japan and the US ...

Within a relatively short period of time, Chinese money laundering organisations (CMLOs) have become one of the pre-eminent global money laundering threats. Using centuries-old techniques, modern-day ...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine showed Europeans that they cannot take their security for granted or rely on others for critical functions. Yet the European Union is doing exactly that by allowing itself ...

Professor John Bew joins Neil Melvin to reflect on the UK’s evolving global role, strategic reviews, and how Britain can navigate an era of geopolitical upheaval. Over the past decade, the United ...