Hamish De Bretton-Gordon

If the Muscovite dictator possessed any decency he would declare a ceasefire, if only for 24 hours. He does not and he will not

Let us hope that one of the most sensible and forward-leaning proposals in this year’s Strategic Defence Review, a gap-year scheme allowing young men and women to see whether they are cut out for service in our Armed Forces, is not lost amid the distractions of the new year.

Ukraine didn’t hit the Russian leader’s residence. Everyone except the US president can see through this nonsense

When the internal propaganda collapses, regimes soon follow

The world’s attention is now fixed on a narrow but strategically essential stretch of water: the Strait of Hormuz.

The war in the Middle East grinds on, regardless of what the mercurial occupant of the White House might suggest. From where I stand, having fought in previous wars in the region, it is anything but o...

There’s a dangerous whiff of theatre about US president Donald Trump’s talk of seizing Iran’s uranium. If it’s not a ruse, then it’s a profound misunderstanding of how Special Forces operations actually work.

Ukrainian forces have, by credible accounts, achieved something novel on the modern battlefield: the seizure of a Russian position using only drones and ground-based robotic systems. If confirmed in full, this marks a significant inflection point in the evolution of land warfare.

If symbolism matters, and in Russia it always has, then today’s Victory Day parade on Red Square spoke volumes. The absence of tanks grinding across the sacred cobblestones was not merely an omission; it was an admission.

The perennial obituary of the tank has once again proved premature.