Monthly Archives: April 2026

Jeanne McKinney uncovers the resilient warcraft of explosives Whether launched from aircraft, drones, missile sites, by hand or lying in the ground, bombs have been the weapons of choice for decades of terror attacks and wars. Laser-guided technology provides precise targeting for larger bombs, yet smaller types of bombs are not as discriminate. The intent… Read more »

Oleg Stefanets explains how rising fraud is putting retailers at risk and why we cannot afford to let them fight it alone The effects of fraud are felt across the entire economy. Consumers and businesses alike are falling prey to criminals employing increasingly sophisticated means of targeting them. The rise of e-commerce has created fertile… Read more »

Barry Scott Zellen, PhD explains why, as increased competition for power returns to the Arctic, Japan is positioned for prominence Japan was, for much of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a North Pacific great power in command of North-East Asia’s near-Arctic seas and insular territories, and was even, albeit briefly, a global Arctic… Read more »

Adam Irwin warns the UK risks being drawn into a preventive war it did not choose Britain is exposed to the consequences of a preventive war it neither initiated nor debated. In our report Iran: The Strikes, the Stakes and Britain’s Exposure, we argue that the decapitation strike on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has not resolved… Read more »

Jorge Marinho, Júlio Ventura and Lourenço Ribeiro provide a geopolitical analysis of Venezuela, considering China, Iran and Russia’s defiance of the United States Hugo Chávez’s first victory in the 1999 presidential elections amounted to the growing prominence of the left, not only in Venezuela but also in Latin America, which triggered what became known as… Read more »

Dan Jones shines a light on the government’s new resilience-focused action plan responding to the rising cyber threat The government has published its new £210-million cyber action plan that sets out how it plans to tackle the growth in online threats. Spearheaded by a new Cyber Unit, the Government Cyber Action Plan (GCAP) is designed… Read more »

Dan Lattimer reveals why, with ransomware able to strike at any time, resilience is your best defence Thanks to the advent of digital commerce, AI helpdesks and globalisation, many organisations can today legitimately claim to be open 24/7. Unfortunately, cybersecurity hasn’t always kept up with this changing operational tempo. As corporate cautionary tales continue to… Read more »

Mohammad Ismail asks is Agentic AI in arrested development? Talk of an AI bubble has dominated the headlines over recent months. Concerns are growing that the level of investment being pumped into AI companies is out of kilter and that, much like we saw in the dot.com era, this could lead to a crash. Yet… Read more »