Why did North Korea decide to deploy its troops to Ukraine? Pyongyang appears to be concerned that Trump’s electoral victory could restrict its opportunity to become a critical part of Russia’s ...

A Russian-speaking money laundering network uncovered by the UK’s National Crime Agency shows the clear links between organised crime, sanctions evasion and hostile state activity. You would be ...

Japan's commitment to spending 2% of GDP on defence by 2027 marks a strategic shift, reflecting Tokyo's proactive stance on regional security challenges and global alliance commitments. Japan’s ...

This policy brief, written for authorities responsible for the risk-assessment process, aims to offer insight on five key challenges that jurisdictions face with a sectoral virtual asset risk ...

This year’s Annual Chief of the Defence Staff Lecture is given by Admiral Sir Tony Radakin KCB ADC.

RUSI researcher Maria Nizzero talks about the growing problem of illicit finance and its shift from a domestic policy issue to a security threat. She explains the process of the securitisation of ...

Illicit finance has been increasingly framed as a threat to UK security over the past 10 years, but the focus and sense of urgency in the response have not been maintained. Courtesy of Alexander ...

Europe and the US must capitalise on Iran’s vulnerabilities and time pressures to push for meaningful nuclear diplomacy before the October 2025 ‘snapback’ deadline expires. On 29 November, the deputy ...

The 3rd Marquess of Santa Cruz de Marcenado (1684–1732), soldier, diplomat and scholar, pioneered humanist ways to prevent or suppress insurgencies in his Military Reflections. Read the transcript In ...

Voted Britain’s ‘greatest general’ by the National Army Museum in 2011, ‘Uncle Bill’ Slim led the XIVth Army from defeat to victory. Read the transcript Field Marshal William Slim (1891–1970) is ...

Suggestions of a possible ‘turning point’ in Sudan’s 18 month-long civil war are a drastic overstatement, albeit one exposing the limited agency and capability of key parties – both foreign and ...