What does Xi want?
The new Cold War between China and the US isn’t just fought on the digital plane. China is supplying equipment to Russia, intimidating Taiwan, bringing countries across Africa and Asia into its orbit ...
8 Maj 202435min
How America lost its New World Order… and what comes next
America’s war to liberate Kuwait from Saddam Hussein in 1991 was supposed to inaugurate a New World Order. President George HW Bush spoke of protecting ‘“peace, security, freedom and the rule of law… ...
1 Maj 202440min
Gold Wars, Russia’s Africa Corps… and the biggest mass migration of the 21st Century
The world has responded with stunning cynicism to the wave of coups d’etat across Central Africa – either ignoring the violence, suffering and the rise of military strongmen, or exploiting it for thei...
24 Apr 202446min
Emergency Edition: Iran attacks Israel – what next?
Iran’s drone attacks on Israel, in retaliation for an Israeli strike on its embassy in Damascus, shocked the world this weekend. Israel’s divided war cabinet is considering a response, the US has warn...
15 Apr 202425min
Guns, Drugs and Crypto – Who’s funding the return of asymmetric warfare?
Why does the militarily weaker side lose many battles but often win the war? In the 21st Century the David-vs-Goliath threat of asymmetric warfare – where small non-state militias and terror groups de...
10 Apr 202438min
Dangerous Waters – How the world shipping system became a new battleground
Houthi attacks on shipping have thrown global supply lines into turmoil, and led 20 countries to intervene militarily. But the Red Sea logistics crisis is just the latest in series of shocks to the wo...
3 Apr 202439min
Update: Russia after the Crocus Hall massacre
Special edition: On Friday March 22, Islamic State gunmen murdered more than 130 people in Moscow’s Crocus City Hall concert venue, just 12 miles from the Kremlin. Putin tried to direct the blame towa...
28 Mars 202415min
The new Dark Age of Espionage
The spying game was supposed to fade into history with the Cold War. But Vladimir Putin’s historic grievances, obsession with Ukraine and need to placate his own intelligence agencies have sent a new ...
27 Mars 202442min
