What Do We Know about Alliances and Military Spending?
In the face of direct threats, where potential opponents are carefully weighing alliance credibility, calling alliance commitment into question may increase the risk of costly wars.
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Terrorists could try to exploit artificial intelligence, MI5 and FBI chiefs warn
Intelligence summit told terror groups or hostile states may seek to use AI to build bombs or disrupt electionsArtificial intelligence could be harnessed by terrorists or hostile states seeking to build bombs, spread propaganda or disrupt elections, ac…
Thinking Global Podcast – Megan MacKenzie
Megan MacKenzie speaks about Military Sexual Violence, military exceptionalism, media coverage, the ethics of data collection, and why soldiers swap illicit pictures.
SAS had ‘gone too far’ in Afghanistan, inquiry into claims of unlawful killings told
Memo by military police chief said there was ‘no shortage of detractors’ in Whitehall of elite unit’s conductSenior figures in Downing Street were calling in 2016 for the SAS to have its “wings clipped” as it emerged that a growing number of suspected …
US sends second aircraft carrier ‘to deter hostile actions against Israel’
Washington (AFP) – The United States is sending a second aircraft carrier strike group to the eastern Mediterranean “to deter hostile actions against Israel or any efforts toward widening this war following Hamas’s attack,” Secretary of Defense Lloyd …
UK to send navy ships and spy planes to support Israel
British PM says aim is to support efforts to ensure regional stability and prevent further escalationIsrael and Hamas at war – live updatesBritain will send surveillance aircraft, two Royal Navy support ships and about 100 Royal Marines to the eastern …
Two sleeping Afghan adults shot dead by SAS was ‘war crime’, inquiry hears
Children also seriously hurt in incident examined by inquiry into killing of 80 civilians by SAS in Afghanistan Two Afghan adults were shot dead while sleeping by the SAS in August 2012 and two children were seriously injured, a public inquiry has hear…
SAS troops ‘executed Afghan males of fighting age’, inquiry hears
Counsel to London inquiry into 80 civilian deaths focuses on British operations in Helmand province between 2010 and 2013Britain’s SAS faced allegations that it shot dead nine Afghans while they were sleeping and engaged in a policy of “executing Afgha…
Inquiry to open into claims British soldiers summarily killed 80 Afghans
Public inquiry into alleged actions of SAS units to begin amid victims’ families pleas for truth to be uncoveredA public inquiry into allegations that 80 Afghans were summarily killed by members of three different British SAS units begins on Monday ami…
Nine rapes at Harrogate military college reported to civilian police in 13 months
Figures raise questions about safeguarding at college given ‘outstanding’ for welfare by OfstedNine rapes at the Harrogate military college, which trains 16- and 17-year-olds for careers in the British army, were reported to civilian police over a 13-m…