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Ukraine has integrated AI into a point defence turret, marking the start of what seems to be the deployment of autonomous weapons at scale.

A number of Russian sources have reported that the sinking of a Russian cargo ship, the Ursa Major, off the coast of Spain in December 2024 has been widely assessed to be the result of a sabotage operation carried out by multiple NATO member states. The sources cited Western reports noting that the ship wascarrying nuclear reactor components intended to support North Korea’s nuclear powered submarine program. A series of unexplained explosions on the ship resulted in it sinking in the Mediterranean, with a U.S.

What happens when the Arctic starts to look like the South China Sea?Historically, a neutral region where cooperation prevailed, the Arctic is quickly becoming a contested space. This is no more evident than in the increasing scope and volume of Russian and Chinese lawfare affecting the region.

The United States Naval Institute has reported that the Russian Navy has deployed warships from the Pacific fleet to escort civilian shipping in the East China Sea, guarding cargo against attempted armed seizures by the U.S. Armed Forces or strategic partners. This has occurred as the United States has escalated efforts to target Russian civilian shipping, and more broadly that from Iran and Venezuela as well. U.S.

Italy may finally be about to publish its first-ever national security strategy, a striking development for the only G7 country that has never had one.For decades, a mix of government instability, competition between institutions, a relatively permissive international environment, and the perceived reliability of U.S. security guarantees in Europe and the Mediterranean reduced incentives to produce a strategy. Recently, however, domestic political consolidation and external pressures have appeared to align in a way not seen before.

RussianPresident Vladimir Putin has revealed that the country’s new type of heavyweight intercontinental range ballistic missile (ICBM), the RS-28 Sarmat, has the world’s longest engagement range at 35,000 kilometres. “The missile can move not only on a ballistic but also on a suborbital trajectory, which allows for a range of over 35,000km while doubling its accuracy and the ability to penetrate all existing and future missile defence systems,” the president observed.

The U.S. Navy has announced the development of a nuclear powered surface combat ship, colloquially referred to as the Trump class battleship, which would mark a major shift for the service’s power projection. The United States has not laid down a nuclear powered surface combat ship in almost half a century, since the USS Arkansas was laid down in 1977, with the extreme production and sustainment costs of such ships having been considered prohibitive.