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The National Resistance Council for the Salvation of Afghanistan   opposes the Taliban regime criticises as `unrealistic and misguided a recent assessment of life under the Taliban given by Tobias...

  Niger's democratically elected President Mohamed Bazoum has been overthrown. Niger is a part of the sub-Saharan African region known as the Sahel, a belt of land that stretches from...

Only a few months ago the UK promised to supply 14 Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine, a move which helped persuade other western nations to supply their own tanks to aid the fight...

  Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has met with Vladimir Putin for the first time since he brokered the truce to end the recent mutiny by Wagner fighters which temporarily threatened...

  I don’t think any sane person can now doubt that the Scottish National Party (SNP), the party of government in Scotland since 2007, is now in serious trouble. Disaster...

  The Ukrainian counter-offensive has been going on for a couple of months without any signs of significant progress, let alone a breakthrough. Putin had been crowing that the UkrAF...

  If the dreadful Ukraine war has taught us anything it is that big numbers matter, so why are we Hell bent on reducing Britain's military to Dad's Army levels....

  When I joined the 4th Royal Tank Regiment (Scotland’s Own) as a brand new, wet-behind-the-ears subaltern in Munster, West Germany, in early 1980, I became part of the mighty...

  The UK parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) has just published its report on China. It has its origins in a previous inquiry by the Committee into whether the...

  Babcock and the Submarine Delivery Agency (SDA) have signed an initial contract for the multi-year refit of the second of the UK’s Vanguard Class nuclear submarines, HMS Victorious. The...

Keen observers of politics north of the Border will have noticed that all is not well with the party of government in Edinburgh, the Scottish National Party (SNP). Some are...

  There has been a bit of a hoo-hah since the US administration announced its intention to supply cluster bombs to Ukraine as part of its most recent £625 million...

  PQShield, a provider of quantum-safe cryptographic solutions, has been selected by AWS to participate in its AWS European Defence Accelerator, to advance the development and deployment of quantum-resistant encryption...

 There were extraordinary developments in Russia this week when Yevgeny Prigozhin, the boss of “Putin’s private army” the Wagner Group, turned on the Russian military hierarchy. The Wagner Group has...

Just when we all thought that the writing was on the wall for Putin, Prigozhin and his horde of veterans and ex-convicts got cold feet. Having got halfway up the motorway...

With the US imminent donation of US-built F-16 Fighting Falcon strike aircraft to Ukraine, common sense eventually prevailed. Various western nations are preparing to send them as soon as they...

The Ukrainian counter-offensive has now been underway for at least a couple of weeks. Fighting has increased significantly along the 1,000 kilometre front line. The UkrAF are mainly involved in probing...

  The destruction of the Nova Kokhova dam by the Russians has had many consequences. One of them is the potential for the cooling systems at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear...

  Not too far away from where his troops are locked in combat with those of Russia, Ukraine’s President Zelensky addressed a summit of European leaders in Moldova as he sought to up...

For the last twenty-five years or so I have been writing and speaking about defence matters in Scotland. The question always was, however, how could it do so, not that...

  Conflict and confrontation have bubbled up in northern Kosovo, where ethnic Serbs outnumber the Albanian population by some margin. Relationships between the two groups have been strained for years...

The past week has been a momentous one for both sides in the Russo-Ukraine war. Now well into the sixteenth month of the conflict, there appears to be no end...

For many the highlight of the recent G7 summit conference held in Hiroshima was US President Joe Biden signalling, at long last, that the USA would not stand in the...

  Babcock International has announced the appointment of Sir Kevin Smith CBE as Non-Executive Director. Sir Kevin will join the Board with effect from 1 June 2023. Sir Kevin brings...

  Italian Shipbuilder Fincantieri has confirmed that its US subsidiary, Marinette Marine, has been awarded a $526 million contract by the US Department of Defense to build a fourth Constellation-class...

  It was good news for Ukraine when UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace announced that the British government was sending “some” of its air-launched Storm Shadow cruise missiles to the...

The year 2023 doesn’t look as if it’s going to go down as a vintage one as far as the Scottish National Party (SNP) is concerned. The main pro-independence political...

  You may have noticed that the tone of Russian commentary on its war of aggression in Ukraine is subtly changing. A new note of pessimism with regards to its...

What are we to make of  last Tuesday’s presumed drone attack on the Kremlin? All the indications are that two small uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) exploded on or above the...

  Recent speculation in the world’s media on when the long-anticipated Ukrainian counter-offensive against their Russian invaders will begin has now reached almost hysterical proportions. When is it coming, they ask?...

  Martin Fitzgerald and Mike McGrath, co-founders of Kwayga  announced the "European Shelves for Ukrainian Producers" project at the Enterprise Ireland Start-Up Showcase 2023. Kwayga.com is an Enterprise Ireland-backed sourcing...

  BAE Systems has announced a partnership with Microsoft to utilize innovative cloud technology to equip defence programs. Combining BAE Systems’ knowledge of building complex digital systems for militaries and...

  In the Russo-Ukraine war the Russian invaders have been battering away in Bakhmut for months now, trying to capture the city. Now the Ukrainians are regaining ground on the...

  The recently leaked Pentagon documents were yet another embarrassment for the USA and its allies, revealing as they do much secret and otherwise classified material on the progress of...

  Babcock International Group (Babcock), the defence company, has been awarded a one-year contract by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) to help the British Army understand the Defence application and...

  Leading authority on foreign affairs, Tim Marshall has written his latest highly-anticipated next book, The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change our World. There...