The close links between American surveillance of Africa and military facilities in England are revealed by campaigners working for non-violent social change.
The growth of secretive floating armouries raises a challenge to maritime security worldwide.
A new naval base in the Gulf reveals both the flaws in Britain's strategic thinking and the limits of its military capacity.
A single incident in the air war against the Islamic State offers a lesson in its character.
Washington hoped for a clean getaway from the two countries it invaded in the early 2000s. The Taliban, like the Islamic State, has other ideas.
Behind the flux of conflict on the ground in Syria-Iraq, all sides are digging in for a long war.
A vast blood-red memorial in London evokes war's victims. Behind it stand the weapon-makers that could create millions more.
The strength of the new jihadi movement is to link ideology and combat experience. The failures of its western enemy add fuel to its cause.
A second letter from an Islamic State adherent operating in the part of Syria controlled by the movement.
Armed drones, special forces, privatisation and secrecy are the preferred tools of military campaigns from Iraq-Syria to the Sahel. Now, researchers are mapping this landscape in the public interest.
A letter from Raqqa, in the heart of territory controlled by the Islamic State.
What should United Kingdom's defence policy be? A government department has commissioned advice from the noted SWISH management consultancy. This is an exclusive copy of its just completed report.
