Global alliances are realigning as great powers pursue regional influence—smaller nations are adapting by balancing relationships based on self-interest rather than longstanding ideological commitments. The multipolar order weakens traditional partnerships while USAID cuts suit China.

This article asserts that beyond the upheaval of the recent 12-day war between Israel and Iran, a strategic shift will likely benefit China; potentially redefining security, diplomacy and economic alliances in the Indo-Pacific.

This article asserts the Israel-Gaza war has influenced Egypt’s domestic politics, causing deepening ideological fractures among Egypt’s intellectuals and secular opposition, and restoring the battered image of Egypt’s military as the nation’s ultimate protector.

AUKUS member states have a unique opportunity to redefine strategic deterrence by jointly developing a stealth, un-crewed combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) designed to operate alongside, and independently of, the US Air Force’s B-21 Raider bomber.

The US experiment saw an increase in the quantity of decisions, without a decrease in quality. The AI doubled the number of operational dilemmas humans were able to address and generated three times the solutions.

With NATO members agreeing to drastically increase defence spending; global security deteriorating; and defence capability gaps obvious, pressure is mounting on the Australian Government to increase defence spending to a comparable amount.

Edgewing, a new joint venture involving BAE Systems (UK), Leonardo (Italy) and Japan Aircraft Industrial Enhancement Co. Ltd., will be responsible for the design and development of the next generation combat aircraft.

While the US believes the Wedgetail is a ‘perfectly great’ platform, it has a limited theatre and doesn’t match the DoD’s current ambitions to have a sensing solution that would cover the entire globe.

NATO leaders secured a new spending pledge and a nice photo op, but this article asserts that the summit failed to address any of the hard questions currently facing the Alliance.

The purchase represents the biggest strengthening of the UK’s nuclear posture in a generation and reintroduces a nuclear role for the Royal Air Force for the first time since the end of the Cold War.