Iran: the costs of War and the global geoeconomic shock 09/03/2026 | Pietro Batacchi The Third Gulf War - allow us to name it so for simplicity —is now escalating to alarming levels. The Strait of Hormuz remains closed for… [read more]

Sustained US–Israeli strikes in Iran and Tehran’s response in the Gulf 03/03/2026 | Andrea Mottola US-Israeli air operations in Iran have continued at a steady pace over the last 36 hours. Since the early hours of yesterday, Israel has also… [read more]

NATO stakeholders set out steps for further increasing CUI security 03/03/2026 | Dr Lee Willett (reporting from Gothenburg) Further enhancing cross-government and multinational collaboration, and further harnessing technology, are key steps NATO stakeholders can take in continuing to augment capacity and capability to… [read more]

More warheads, less transparency - the hardening of French nuclear strategy 02/03/2026 | Marco Giulio Barone Today, French President Emmanuel Macron delivered a speech at Île Longue, officially updating France’s nuclear posture. The speech confirmed the five-pillar architecture of French deterrence… [read more]

War on Iran: preliminary analysis of the operations 02/03/2026 | Andrea Mottola Yesterday, Israeli-US operations against Iran continued, with missile responses from the regime, while details emerged regarding saturday's Iranian attacks and counterattacks. On this last point,… [read more]

Iran: objectives, stakes, and the risk of chaos 28/02/2026 | Pietro Batacchi At dawn this morning, the US and Israel initiated hostilities against Iran, launching a war whose duration and outcomes remain uncertain. What is certain is… [read more]

Iran responds to USA and Israel with ballistic missile launches: several american bases hit 28/02/2026 | Tommaso Massa Following this morning's U.S. and Israeli strikes - which, after the first two waves previously reported, continued throughout the day targeting ballistic missile launchers, radar… [read more]

Iran: it’s War 28/02/2026 | Tommaso Massa and Carolina Paizs Around 10:00 AM Iranian time (07:00 AM CET), Israel and the United States launched a series of air raids defined as "preemptive" against various targets… [read more]

International Fleet Review 2026 and the Indian Navy’s Great Ambitions 18/02/2026 | Carolina Paizs (Reporting from India) On 18 February, the first of three major events officially began in Visakhapatnam, in the State of Andhra Pradesh (Southern India), placing India at the… [read more]

Battle-tested innovation: Defense Tech Expo 2026 opens in Tel Aviv 17/02/2026 | Editorial Team (reporting from Tel Aviv) As the shadow of war looms over Tehran and the US continues to reinforce its military footprint in the Middle East, the gates of Expo… [read more]

Iran: the US further reinforces its military posture in the area. The Jordanian Muwaffaq Salti base is pivotal 17/02/2026 | Editorial Team While talks continue, and President Trump keeps repeating that Iran wants a deal, the United States is pressing ahead with efforts to reinforce its presence… [read more]

MSC 2026: Transatlantic Cognitive Dissonance 17/02/2026 | Caterina Tani Looking at transatlantic relations today, the true protagonist of this year’s Munich Security Conference was a form of strategic ‘cognitive dissonance.’ In psychology, cognitive dissonance… [read more]

US bolsters military presence in Puerto Rico 16/02/2026 | Fabio Di Felice Over a month after the US arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, American forces remain not only active in the Caribbean but are operating under… [read more]

NATO 3.0: proclaimed unity and the new transatlantic contract 13/02/2026 | Caterina Tani (reporting from Brussels) After weeks of underlying tensions - from the “Greenland dossier” revived by Donald Trump to the collapse of US-EU trade talks that included defence procurement… [read more]

Second US Carrier Strike Group could reinforce the LINCOLN CSG in the Gulf 12/02/2026 | Editorial Team According to the Wall Street Journal, the Pentagon has reportedly ordered a second Carrier Strike Group (CSG) to prepare for deployment to the Middle East,… [read more]

SCAF/FCAS: Requiem for a Fighter 10/02/2026 | Marco Giulio Barone When Europe’s leaders unveiled the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) in 2017, they sold it as the embodiment of strategic autonomy and technological sovereignty; less… [read more]

World Defense Show kicks off in Riyadh, as the Gulf teeters on the brink of War 09/02/2026 | Pietro Batacchi (Reporting from Riyadh) The third edition of the World Defense Show (WDS) opened yesterday at the Riyadh International Convention & Exhibition Center, some 70 km from the capital,… [read more]

Conflict lessons indicate navies must keep building the maritime surveillance net 09/02/2026 | Dr Lee Willett, reporting from London Ukraine’s successful sinking of the Russian Federation Navy’s Slava-class cruiser MOSKVA – its Black Sea Fleet flagship – on 14 April 2022 was one of… [read more]

Taiwan's HIMARS gambit: forward deployment to China’s doorstep 02/02/2026 | Editorial Team Taiwan's planned deployment of US-supplied Lockheed Martin HIMARS rocket launchers to outlying islands within sight of the Chinese mainland represents a tactical escalation that sharpens… [read more]

Romania: EU loans are reshaping the Black Sea's strategic landscape 02/02/2026 | Marco Giulio Barone Romania has unveiled one of Europe's most ambitious defence modernisation programmes, leveraging €16.6 billion from the European Union's Security Action for Europe (SAFE) instrument to… [read more]