Are Boris and Donald the new Blair and Bush? Movements of the UK’s handful of destroyers suggest they might be.
Few in the west know about the war fought on their behalf in Syria and Iraq. But they may come to know the rage that 60,000 dead have inspired.
In the 1980s Iran learned its frigates were no match for the US Navy. But its many small, nimble attack craft can worry tankers and warships alike.
Republican presidents always want ‘small’ nukes for use, not deterrence. What’s worrying is that US military chiefs are thinking the same way.
Kim Jong-un has the bombs to put on it too – but lately it’s all smiles from Donald Trump. Is this a lesson for Iran?
Saudi Arabia and other US allies are blockading Qatar, saying it supports terrorism. So why was its emir guest of honour at the White House on Monday?
‘Flight shame’ is spreading, and the industry knows it needs to get a low-emission antidote ready.
Jeremy Hunt promises £15bn extra, while on Boris Johnson’s side a former defence secretary wants to buy huge floating bases the navy would be hard pressed to defend.
Power vacuums in the Pentagon as a pattern of attacks across the Middle East look suspiciously like a demonstration of Iranian ‘irregular’ power.
ISIS has lost its Middle Eastern caliphate, but for five years it has been drawing fighters from across Asia to its Afghan ‘province’.
Iran could turn to asymmetric warfare if it lost its primary armed forces; and the British couldn’t but help US military embedded in its territory.
The Revolutionary Guards are “Iran’s military-industrial complex”, and Trump’s provocations only make them stronger.
