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President says move is based on ‘very good relationship with Kim Jong-un’ but US military officials have said Ukraine war is boosting regime’s combat capabilities Donald Trump has said he is scaling back joint US military drills with South Korea aimed at deterring North Korea, despite military officials from both countries warning that Kim Jong-un’s regime was learning new battlefield tactics fro…

Europe and Nato have known for years that interceptor production can’t keep up with demand and now disaster looms, putting us all in danger “Invincible.” That was how Vladimir Putin described Russia’s latest generation of ballistic missiles in 2018 . In 2022 he would unleash this arsenal to strike across Ukraine, hitting command centres, critical infrastructure and airfields. Then, in 2023, Ukrai…

Ukraine has targeted Russian oil facilities with long-range drones almost daily in recent months. The barrage has caused fuel shortages in Russia and unsettled the Russian public.

As drones and missiles reshape modern warfare, the question is whether asymmetric capabilities can prevent conflict before it begins.

The recent advancement of China in Latin America suggests that the traditional hegemony of the United States could be declining. The purpose of this research is to assess the degree in which the American hegemonic position in this region has diminished and what implications this likely phenomenon could eventually bring. Several dimensions of the notion of Hegemony are evaluated such as economic, …

New bridge makes it easier to dodge satellite surveillance, investigation argues, as Ukrainian president warns Russia is to receive 30,000 more North Korean soldiers Russia and North Korea are close to completing a bridge that will form the first road link ever built between them, amid concerns the two increasingly close allies are creating infrastructure to boost military cooperation in the Ukra…
As Venezuela’s interim government and opposition representatives prepare for talks, the Trump administration can help to steer the course. The post Upcoming Venezuela negotiations are an opportunity for the US to lock in a victory appeared first on Atlantic Council .
Two stories this week, connected by one word: open. A Chinese open-weight model helped touch off the worst week for chip stocks since April, as investors finally asked what $725 billion in AI capex is buying. Days later, when an autonomous agent breached Hugging Face, its own defenders were locked out by US frontier-model guardrails and ran the forensics on an open Chinese model instead. On both …

Recognizing Iran's control over the Strait of Hormuz could set a dangerous precedent, with other countries attempting to claim important waterways, analysts say.

Over the past decade, the UK and the countries of the EU have experienced very similar, and deeply troubling, security challenges as a result of the military threat from Russia, disengagement and hostility from the US, and the possibility of economic coercion from China. The UK’s 2025 National Security Strategy specifies a clear way forward, indicating a need for what it calls a “rebalancing” of …

Between 2017 and 2026, the United States government under Donald Trump orchestrated and advanced a systematic campaign of factually-false economic and security claims against its NATO allies, with America's closest ally and largest foreign market—Canada—as a primary target. This paper argues that this campaign is not a product of analytical error or political bluster but that the evidence is moun…

After US rhetoric about taking control of Greenland exacerbated tensions between Washington and European allies in January, the US, Greenland, and Denmark opened discussions about the US presence in the autonomous territory. In parallel, the Atlantic Council's Task Force on Greenland brought together transatlantic expertise to explore the underlying issues and find a productive path forward. The …

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