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Russian aggression and American wavering reveal how ill-equipped Europe is | Leaders (2024)
Geopolitics in the war in Ukraine are changing where the world buys its arms. Where to buy drones, fighters and tanks on the cheap | International (2023)
The EU should heed the lesson of “The Princess and the Pea” (2020)
But thirty years after reunification, it is finding its stride (2020)
Still think globalization will bring peace? They thought that in 1914, too. (2018)
The German military has received a hefty boost in a revised budget plan from 2020 after Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen refused to sign off t... (2018)
António Guterres, the UN secretary-general, today met survivors of the American A-bomb that (2018)
The Manhattan Project, the program that developed the first nuclear weapons during World War II, worked out of three purpose-built cities in Tennes... (2018)
Better anti-submarine warfare will mean fewer places for subs to hide "ON JULY 20th 1960, a missile popped out of an apparently empty Atlantic o... (2018)
Miniature robotics ON NOVEMBER 12th a video called “Slaughterbots” was uploaded to YouTube. Slaughterbots” is fiction. The question Dr Russel... (2018)
LAST week India celebrated its 68th Republic Day, the highlight of which is an elaborate parade to show off India’s military might (pictured). (2018)
LAST month the emirate of Abu Dhabi held the International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX), the Middle East's largest arms fair. The four-... (2018)
EARLIER this month Apache attack helicopters began arriving on Gotland, a Swedish island in the Baltic sea some 350km (220 miles) from the Russian ... (2018)
JAPAN’S latest white paper on defence pulls few punches. “Destabilising factors” in the region are “becoming more tangible and acute”, it warns. No... (2018)
ON January 20th Turkey launched a military operation (optimistically dubbed “Olive Branch”) in Syria's north-western enclave of Afrin. It started w... (2018)
IT WAS in his typical, headline-grabbing mode that Boris Johnson pitched the notion of building a bridge across the Channel. At least it served as ... (2018)
A successor to the iconic SR-71 Blackbird could cruise at speeds near Mach 6—but is it a real plane or a pipe dream? (2018)
Finland shares an 833-mile border with an aggressive and unpredictable neighbor. That proximity led to a major conflict during World War II—the hor... (2017)
Germany's military has approved plans to buy 45 to 60 new heavy-lift helicopters, kicking off a competition between the two largest U.S. weapons ma... (2017)
THEIR headquarters are separated only by a three-kilometre taxi ride across Brussels, and over the years they have declared their shared interests ... (2017)
TERRORISM, Russian bullying, chaos in the Middle East and the possibility of a President Donald Trump: it is no surprise that the European Union wa... (2017)
THE EUROPEAN UNION is at heart an economic and trade project built on its foundation as a customs union. The 1980s saw the addition of the single m... (2017)
Deciding when to storm the beach at Normandy was no easy feat, as the slightest variation in the tides could spell disaster for incoming boats. Wit... (2018)
Geology profoundly influenced the strategy adopted by the Allied forces to invade Nazi-occupied Europe on D-Day. (2018)
"The war to end all wars"; that had to be renamed "The First World War"; ended 100 years ago (2018)
Only seven countries in the entire world deploy nuclear weapons at sea, an exclusive and deadly club. (2018)
Fresh off of meeting with Vladimir Putin, the U.S. president again questions NATO commitments. (2018)
Backgrounder examines the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, which may now be imperiled by mutual suspicion between Russia and the Uni... (2018)
The Butter Battle Book by Dr. Seuss is a stinging satire on nationalism, full of the famous author's trademark artwork and whimsical rhymes. “Ma... (2016)
The US has approved the $10.5 billion sale of a Patriot anti-missile system to NATO ally Poland. Eastern European NATO states have been ramping up ... (2017)
Military tech startup Anduril Industries is shaking up the U.S. defense industry as it is one of the few privately held technology companies findin... (2023)
Why Iran's Geography Sucks (2022)
Why Azerbaijan Will Keep Attacking Armenia (2022)
How Switzerland Became Unconquerable (2022)
Examines Canada's role on June 6th, 1944 and the advance through Normandy, France. (2018)
The Normandy invasion was the largest seaborne assault in world history and was a pivotal moment in World War 2. This is a brief look back at that ... (2018)
🌍 After the Soviet Union's fall, geopolitics changed, but Europe's reliance on Russian energy backfired! France's self-sufficiency in energy and ar... (2024)
CNN's Fareed Zakaria questions whether progress is inexorable, drawing comparisons between today and the 1920s. (2018)
ANNE MCELVOY, our senior editor, spoke to members of the British and German armies to discuss how they are preparing for urban warfare. She visited... (2018)
Listen to this episode from The Daily on Spotify. In the decades after World War II and the atrocities of the Holocaust, Germany deliberately under... (2023)
Description: From the bestselling author of On Tyranny, the definitive history of Hitler's and Stalin's wars against the civilians of Europe in Wor... (2018)