Given the US administration's public statements on Iran, visible activity at RAF Fairford may have been deemed an acceptable if not a welcomed externality of the current air campaign," he told AFP.

The long-awaited US National Cyber Strategy has just been published, and it’s five pages of content have raised considerable questions about how ambition will translate into practice.

Iran appears to be creating room for multiple narratives,” Burcu Ozcelik, a senior research fellow in Middle East security at the Royal United Services Institute, said by email. “This looks like an ...

If the U.S. is firing off so much ordnance against Iran, then they can’t use it against the Chinese in, say, two years, and it’s not going to be available for the Europeans against Russia,” said Ed ...

Mr Prest said that before mine countermeasure vessels could operate safely, naval forces would first need to give them a “bubble of security”. He said: “If you’re going to force the strait against ...

Dr Burcu Ozcelik, from the Royal United Services Institute, said: “For Israel to unilaterally continue strikes against Iran even after Trump declares the military operation over would be a huge risk ...

Strengthening Europe’s defence requires public spending and public backing. How can political leaders explain and gain ...

Nor is the decision to end the war just in the hands of the US and Israel. Roxane Farmafamaian at the UK’s Royal United Services Institute, a defence think-tank, predicts that the Iranians will ...

France already leads a monitoring mission in the Strait of Hormuz to protect trade there, and if a military operation to support opening the strait does get underway, Macron could take credit for ...

The Iranian strategy here is very much about not trying to defeat the American military because they can't, but trying to impose such costs upon the world and the Americans and the global economy that ...

Clearing the mines under fire would come at great cost. You need to suppress the risk from fire before you can clear the ...

Mining is a threat, not because the Iranians can physically close the strait (most mine-laying vessels can be struck, especially if they have no traffic to hide in) but rather because it only takes a ...