Explainer: how ‘AI killer robots’ are threatening global security
The threat from artificial intelligence (AI) autonomous weapons and the need for international cooperation to mitigate the potentiality of “AI…
07 May 2024
How did China hack the UK Ministry of Defence?
China stands accused of hacking the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) in a major cyberattack on armed forces’ SSCL payroll data system. The data breach compromised the names and bank…
03 May 2024
Sweden’s Nato accession: a cyberattack-filled saga
Sweden’s accession to the Nato alliance was far from a smooth process. While the objections of Turkey and Hungary stole headlines as the main obstacle, there was also massive disruption…
01 May 2024
Analysis: how is Russia weaponising ‘ecocide’ in Ukraine?
Attention has (rightly) focused on the grim number of casualties inflicted as the Russia-Ukraine conflict heads into its third year, but Russia’s offensive has decimated Ukraine’s habitat and nature on…
26 Apr 2024
The “world’s policeman”: how many geopolitical fronts can the US maintain?
From catastrophic military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan to dictatorship-enabling, Kissinger-led subterfuge in Chile and Argentina, the US’s role as the “world’s policeman” since the aftermath of the conflict-ridden 1930s…
24 Apr 2024
Military deployment: a viable long-term solution in violence-torn Ecuador?
Ecuador’s state of emergency has reached breaking point. On 22 April, news broke that Ecuadorian security forces had recaptured Fabricio Colón Pico Suarez, leader of the infamous Los Lobos gang…
18 Apr 2024
Russia and Iran: uneasy bedfellows put arms before ideology
When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the Kremlin quickly realised it would soon be in need of one key technology to maintain its ferocious aerial assault: drones. Moscow cast…