Iran, quite long ago, appears to have taken some measures to ensure security forces can keep active in the event of a ‘decapitation’ strike on leadership,” said Robert Tollast of the Royal United ...

The United States Air Force maintains specialist units, aircraft and helicopter types and very highly trained crews for this type of operation, [but] it is very, very dangerous and high risk,” said ...

The Iranian economy is heavily dependent on crude oil exports,” said Petras Katinas, an oil and gas specialist at the Royal United Services Institute, a UK defence think tank. “With this, they are ...

What may be the case is that the wreckage may have been already struck by potentially another F-15 from the same formation to avoid compromise to the advanced sensors and systems on board, because ...

They were prepared to take more pain because they were told the stakes are higher,” Matthew Savill, director of military sciences at the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) think tank, said... the ...

The US government tried to provide political risk insurance and guarantees to shipping and energy firms operating in the Gulf ...

Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz without formally closing it. The question facing Washington is not how to secure the ...

Dr Joana de Deus Pereira, RUSI Senior Research Fellow and Independent Mandate Holder appointed by the UN Human Rights Council ...

The government should reduce universities’ operational cost and compensate them balancing national security interests against ...

US-Israeli strikes suggest preferred political end-states. Each make assumptions of resilience, anti-regime sentiment and air ...

On the negative side, there is a grain of truth, with the Royal Navy being smaller than it has been in hundreds of years,” said professor Kevin Rowlands, editor of the Royal United Services Institute ...

Iran’s lethal drone capability has again been on display in this latest conflict, killing six American soldiers and one ...