A young follower explains why the caliphate is succeeding despite its physical defeat, in the latest of a series imagined by Paul Rogers.
North Korea is rebuilding its ability to launch missiles and the US has got a spy plane in place to watch them – and the Americans are quietly continuing their military exercises with the South too.
Arming Yemen’s Houthi rebels and Libya, and making huge fuel transfers on the high seas – it embarrasses Trump, but westerners can’t really object.
"America first" is perilous blowback for an embattled African region.
The embrace of "remote warfare" to manage conflict seeds disaster
Deep history, deep state, deep pride, and now deep sea: Tehran is bolstering its regional power
The government plans a quasi-imperial post-Brexit lurch. It's time to plot a new course.
America's president is all bluster, North Korea's all strategy. Who is winning?
The bitter legacy of the last military struggle in Iraq-Syria hangs over the next.
How to stop the glaciers melting? With three vital forces, it's possible.
Washington's wars are unendable as well as unwinnable
Jeremy Corbyn's promise of radical change is moving closer to fulfilment
