In-Depth Briefing #81: Security Force Assistance
"Security Force Assistance-like activities conducted with formal allies in security organisations such as NATO can serve to reinforce collective defence. Here, military-to-military training activities...
In-Depth Briefing #80: Multi-Domain Operations – The NATO and US Approach
"NATO – in attempting to introduce its version of Multi-Domain Operations into an Alliance of 32 members – faces a number of difficulties ranging...
In-Depth Briefing #79: Middle Powers and the West
"From the middle power perspective, Ukraine represents an unmitigated disaster. The devastation and suffering endured by Ukraine illustrate the dire consequences for countries that...
In-Depth Briefing #78: Meeting the military challenges of megacities
"Megacities are unique military challenges. They condense time, space and freedom of movement. They place commanders in positions whereby they struggle to gain situational...
In-Depth Briefing #77: Understanding Multi-Domain Operations
"Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) is a term that, despite its ubiquity in the contemporary debate on warfare literature and increasing prevalence in doctrine, remains ambiguous...
In-Depth Briefing #76: The growing reach of ‘regional’ unrest
"A frightening scenario becomes nightmarish if China, Russia, Iran and North Korea, currently more cartel than coalition, employ a coordinated global strategy that synchronises...
In-Depth Briefing #75: Due South
"The US and the UK must recognise that they need humility rather than hubris to re-establish productive relationships with states they previously ignored but...
In-Depth Briefing #74: Views from the North
"With a 1,340 kilometre land border and littorals that border the Baltic, Norway and Barents Seas into the waters of ‘High North’, they ...
In-Depth Briefing #73: Europe’s weakest link?
"Ireland’s position of neutrality, instead of earning admiration from European allies, has drawn the burgeoning realisation that the state’s defence has been underwritten by...
In-Depth Briefing #72: The complicated case of NATO and Serbia
"With concerns of a wider, regional war with Russia, the best militaries in NATO – the US, UK, France and Italy – stand to...