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Russia’s Battlefield Autonomy

Kateryna Bondar | 2026.04.13

This paper examines how Russia is developing military artificial intelligence (AI) and incrementally moving toward autonomous decisionmaking, particularly at the tactical edge. The takeaways below outline the core findings on how these capabilities are built, adapted, and scaled within Russia’s wartime military ecosystem.

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Where Are We Now?

Robert Midgley | 2026.04.10

The next three weeks could change western security and the geo-political world forever if the Chagos “deal” passes through UK Parliament.

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Europe’s AML Package

Kinga Redlowska | 2026.04.09

The EU’s new super-supervisor is coming to life, but will it enable or restrict the future of the EU’s financial services industry?

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DPRK’s Defence Modernisation

John Hemmings | 2026.04.09

Stirred on by engagement in the War in Ukraine – and buoyed by resources through reciprocal arrangements with Russia – North Korea is seeing rapid development in modernising its military.

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Asymmetric World Order

Elias Forneris and Ozeco | 2026.04.08

“I think we are perhaps at the most dangerous moment in international relations… for at least 20 or 30 years because you have an alignment where the United States is distracted by Iran, Europe is occupied by what is happening in Ukraine, and China sees a small window to seize Taiwan… it’s this multiplication of small conflicts that threatens to make everything shatter.”

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Geopolitics For Corporations

Colin Reed and Lewis Sage-Passant | 2026.04.07

A generation of executives, ascendent post-Cold War, lack an institutional memory of intensifying divergence between the world’s largest economies.

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New Rhythms In GEO

Madeleine Chang and Kari A. Bingen | 2026.04.06

Geostationary orbit used to be a parking lot. Some Chinese satellites are circling the lot, tailgating other cars, and pulling into spots that aren’t theirs. This report explores nine years of data on what these satellites have been doing.

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Deepening Strategic Alignment

Kristi Govella and Nicholas Szechenyi | 2026.04.03

As the United States and Japan face an increasingly uncertain global environment, it is time for the two governments to deepen their strategic alignment and strengthen U.S.-Japan alliance cooperation.

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Money To Keep Score

Valery Bonakhau | 2026.04.02

The US government tried to provide political risk insurance and guarantees to shipping and energy firms operating in the Gulf in an effort to keep the Hormuz Strait open. Here is the story why the scheme did not work.

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Measuring Lethality

Nick Reynolds and Jack Watling | 2026.04.02

This Research Paper addresses the utility of measuring lethality as a focal point in force design.

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