Peter Apps

Six days before Russian drones entered Polish airspace on September 9, a U.S. B-2 stealth bomber flew across the North Atlantic and sank a target ship as part of military drills, escorted to its target by Norwegian F-35 stealth jets.

In London’s Shoreditch district, long home to UK tech start-ups, a French artificial intelligence firm is crunching data that would have allowed Ukrainian commanders to more quickly counter Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion.

Visiting Beijing at the height of U.S. President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day” trade war rhetoric this April, Kenyan President William Ruto described a “broken ... global order". He declared that Kenya would work with China to build a "fair, inclusive and sustainable ... world order".

As they kicked off the largest joint military exercises in Australia’s history with a press conference in Sydney earlier this month, U.S. commanders gave a simple explanation for why 35,000 troops from 19 nations were simulating high-tech warfare.

As some 20 Iranian ballistic missiles headed for the U.S. airbase at Al Udeid in Qatar last month following U.S. strikes against Iran, the only U.S. personnel at the almost entirely evacuated base were some 40 air defence personnel manning a Patriot missile battery flown in a few weeks earlier.

As India’s defense chief attended an international security conference in Singapore in May, soon after India and Pakistan fought what many in South Asia now dub “the four-day war”, he had a simple message: Both sides expect to do it all again.

At the headquarters of U.S. Space Command in Colorado Springs, military planners are racing to a very earthbound deadline as they draw up plans for how they might fight the first major war in space.

As Estonia’s defence minister opened a tech conference this week focused heavily on cutting-edge military equipment, he said his nation’s strategy in the face of mounting Russian pressure was to turn itself into a “fly that can paralyse an elephant”.

Earlier this month, U.S. Air Force Brigadier General Doug Wickert summoned nearby civic leaders to Edwards Air Force Base in California to warn them that if China attacks Taiwan in the coming years, they should be prepared for their immediate region to suffer potentially massive disruption from the very start.

As the Trump administration marked 100 days in office this week, China's state broadcaster described what it called "100 days of chaos" and said the government in Beijing was providing "stability to a changing and turbulent world".