Taken together, Ukraine’s integration of AI into each stage of the “Kill Chain” reveals a military strategy that serves as a lesson for militaries across the West. From reconnaissance to the final strike, AI has been steadily integrated and skilfully deployed by the Ukrainian resistance, proving itself to be an indispensable asset in modern warfare.

Behind the spectacle in the media, AA serves as another extension of the historic anti-illegal immigration policy enacted by the initial Trump administration almost a decade ago. With antagonistic roots found in the migration protection protocols, the legislative groundwork that allowed for the “Remain in Mexico” (RMX) program aimed at strict border enforcement on the Southern US-Mexico border, it became clear that AA was not built in isolation from previous policy decisions.

Vladimir Putin’s reintegration of Orthodoxy into the political and social sphere in Russia has a very similar feel to it as Prince Vladimir’s Great Choice just over a millennium ago.

Spurred by an increasing interest in space and the inevitability of other countries making the leap as well, the United Nations (UN) in 1967 adopted the Outer Space Treaty (OST), the first in a series of Cold War era international space laws, much of which has become inadequate for the 21st century.

If negotiations between Tokyo and Washington do not terminate positively,, there is the risk that their economic interdependence between Japan and China will increase to the point that former becomes dangerously vulnerable to geopolitical shocks, as was the case with Germany and Russia in the leadup to the latter’s invasion of Ukraine.

HSC Deputy Director Dr Rowan Allport is giving evidence to the UK House of Lords International Relations and Defence Committee’s inquiry ‘The UK contribution to European Security’ on Tuesday 29 April 2025.

There is no doubt that Russian state security services are in a strong position — rebuilding quickly after a tricky few years of alleged intelligence failures at the start of the Ukraine War.

Addressing the human security of the different ethnic groups will be vital in the ongoing negotiations, or they risk causing a potential cease-fire agreement to fail and cause the established pattern of violence continuing.

Both Trump and Putin see NATO as a threat to national security. For Trump, NATO affairs represent a chief factor in distracting American attention and resources from the most urgent threats represented by the Southern US border and China’s rising power.

Russian disinformation and its tactics are nothing new, but have been steadily developing since the start of the 20th century.