A young follower sees Western policy recruiting the dispossessed from West Africa to India, in the latest of a series imagined by Paul Rogers.
Is it 2003 all over again – but with Iran and Iraq on the same side this time?
ISIS is winning support, gaining territory and launching attacks far and wide, while western military strategy breeds resentment and rage.
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.
