In military terms, Ukraine is indeed outnumbered: less so in manpower (it has some 900,000 regular troops to Russia’s 1.3m) ...

The flawed argument about NATO expansion flows from two false premises. One is that in February 1990, when then-U.S.

Storm Éowyn showed how precarious Ireland's infrastructure is. In an increasingly fraught period in world politics, Security ...

Ukrainian ceasefire looks no closer, Sir Alex Younger tells The Independent how the UK is too detached from the threat posed ...

Amid the rapid international transformations affecting the hierarchy of powers within the global system and the dominating regional and international axes, ...

Mr Putin's investment envoy and one of the most US-savvy members of Russia's elite, Mr Dmitriev, met with US officials in Washington yesterday. The highest-ranking Russian official to visit the US ...

Vladimir Putin has ordered Russia's largest conscription drive in 14 years. His ultimate goal is to have an army larger than ...