Category: Member Contributions


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Member Contributions
16th October 2026

NATO: A Theory of Why Big Wars Start?

By Professor Dr. Julian Lindley-French

Member Contributions
14th October 2026

Lessons from Europe: Spain is getting serious about defence

By Jude Petrie

Member Contributions
13th October 2026

Payback: Russia’s rumour mill 

By Edward Lucas

Member Contributions
5th October 2026

Professor Dr Julian Lindley-French Speech to “Strategic Cultures and International Security Conference Organised by NATO Allied Command Transformation, Alma Mater Studorium Universita di Bologna and Istituto Affari Internazionale, Bertinoro, Italy, September 28, 2026

Member Contributions
5th October 2026

Signal failure: Kaliningrad and the Kremlin

By Edward Lucas

Member Contributions
29th September 2026

For better or for worse, NATO’s future could define Trump’s foreign policy legacy

By Dr. Hans Binnendijk and Air Marshal Sir Chris Harper

Member Contributions
28th September 2026

All the Presidents’ Wars: Twenty-Five Years of America’s War on Terror (Peter Bergen)

Book review by Colin Robertson

Member Contributions
23rd September 2026

Eastern flank: Northern lights

By Edward Lucas

Member Contributions
13th September 2026

Missing in action: Germany’s deterrence

By Edward Lucas

Member Contributions
11th September 2026

What is Europe’s Ukraine Strategy?

Professor Dr. Julian Lindley-French

Member Contributions
7th September 2026

Assisted suicide: Trump’s America

Member Contributions
31st August 2026

Process not panic: the Ratcliffe visit 

By Edward Lucas

Member Contributions
27th August 2026

OSLO SPEECH 2026: CAN NORWAY TRUST BRITAIN?

By Professor Dr Julian Lindley-French

Member Contributions
22nd August 2026

Statecraft: Redefining Strategy for a Post-Normal World

By Colin Robertson

Member Contributions
16th August 2026

The Big Picture: Canada’s Greater Objectives in Trump’s Tariff War

By Colin Robertson

Member Contributions
10th August 2026

Defense Spending Is out of Control

By Dr. Richard D. Hooker Jr.

Member Contributions
10th August 2026

Catching up: Golden age

By Edward Lucas

Member Contributions
4th August 2026

The Burnham era begins: what does this mean for defence?

Member Contributions
3rd August 2026

Black August: Putin’s doom

Member Contributions
26th July 2026

Mission to Moscow: FBI chief Kash Patel trashes allies’ trust

By Edward Lucas

Member Contributions
22nd July 2026

Britain, Germany and the Future of European Defence

By Professor Dr. Julian Lindley-French

Member Contributions
11th July 2026

Was the NATO summit a success? It depends on how you define it

By Kerry Buck

Member Contributions
8th July 2026

NATO’s Big Beast Lame Duck Summit

By Professor Dr. Julian Lindley-French

Member Contributions
8th July 2026

NATO Summit Ankara: The Inside Track

By Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Gordon “Skip” Davis

Member Contributions
8th July 2026

European allies can boost NATO unity at the Ankara summit by accelerating eastern flank deterrence

By Dr. Richard D. Hooker Jr

Member Contributions
6th July 2026

False flags: war of nerves

By Edward Lucas

Member Contributions
4th July 2026

Burnham up: Britain’s credibility bonfire

By Edward Lucas

Member Contributions
4th July 2026

The State of the US Army

By Dr. Richard D. Hooker Jr.

Member Contributions
1st July 2026

The Starmer Defence Sabotage Plan

By Professor Dr. Julian Lindley-French

Member Contributions
22nd June 2026

Biteback: When Trump goes too far 

By Edward Lucas

Member Contributions
17th June 2026

To be an Analyst

By Professor Dr. Julian Lindley-French

Member Contributions
13th June 2026

The Focus Podcast: Dr Julian Lindley-French and Dr. John S. Bruni

Member Contributions
11th June 2026

Britain, Starmer and Labour’s Critical Defence Theory

By Professor Dr. Julian Lindley-French

Member Contributions
10th June 2026

When Russia loses: Nemesis

By Edward Lucas

Member Contributions
10th June 2026

Critical Defence Theory?

By Professor Dr. Julian Lindley-French

Member Contributions
7th June 2026

Trump’s National Security Strategy is hostile to Canada – and the democratic world

By Kerry Buck

Member Contributions
4th June 2026

“Defense is Freedom”: why democratic societies need a Culture of Defence

By LTG (ret.) Massimo Panizzi

Member Contributions
1st June 2026

Less Borat, more Baltic

By Edward Lucas

Member Contributions
25th May 2026

Mind hacks: Russia’s cognitive warfare revealed

By Edward Lucas

Member Contributions
20th May 2026

Tianxia: Everything Under Heaven

By Professor Dr. Julian Lindley-French

Member Contributions
18th May 2026

Prepare for a reckoning if Ukraine war ends

By Edward Lucas

Member Contributions
15th May 2026

Taking Charge: European Forces and the Challenges of Conventional Defence

By Diego Ruiz Palmer and Professor Dr. Luis Simón

Member Contributions
11th May 2026

Putin on the back foot

By Edward Lucas

Member Contributions
4th May 2026

A Post-Nato Manifesto 

By Edward Lucas

Member Contributions
24th April 2026

For Germany, the plot thickens toward a US-optional nuclear deterrent

By Karl-Heinz Kamp

Member Contributions
23rd April 2026

TAG VC Note: AUKUS Sitrep 16.04.26

By Louise Dedichen and Professor Dr. Julian Lindley-French

Member Contributions
20th April 2026

Fighting Talk

By Edward Lucas

Member Contributions
13th April 2026

Populist invincibility: an Orbán myth

By Edward Lucas

Member Contributions
7th April 2026

Another Great British Defence Lie!

By Professor Dr. Julian Lindley-French

Member Contributions
6th April 2026

Europe’s Future After Trump Leaves NATO

By Edward Lucas


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