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The International Institute for Strategic Studies The International Institute for Strategic Studies is a world-leading authority on global security, po

The International Institute for Strategic Studies is a world-leading authority on global security, political risk and military conflict.

The US Air Force’s employment of the MQ-9 Reaper in military operations against Iran demonstrates the potential value of...
22/08/2026

The US Air Force’s employment of the MQ-9 Reaper in military operations against Iran demonstrates the potential value of a hybrid force, where attritable uninhabited systems can bolster mass and absorb risk. However, the operational experience also highlights the challenges of using such a model against more capable adversaries.

Read the latest Military Balance analysis by Gregor Wilson:

➡️ https://go.iiss.org/45Cajlh

Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are adapting their foreign policies to the growing rivalry and mistrust between the great powe...
22/08/2026

Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are adapting their foreign policies to the growing rivalry and mistrust between the great powers while rejecting any binary choice between them.

Analysis from Johan Engvall and Mikael Weissmann: https://go.iiss.org/4pLTPzZ

We are delighted to announce that Jakub Landovský, Director General, Defence Policy and Strategy Division, Ministry of D...
21/08/2026

We are delighted to announce that Jakub Landovský, Director General, Defence Policy and Strategy Division, Ministry of Defence, Czech Republic, will speak at this year’s IISS Prague Defence Summit.

After two successful years in 2024 and 2025 the IISS will again assemble over 250 government leaders, defence officials, senior industry representatives, analysts and media from the transatlantic community and beyond to discuss challenges and opportunities for European defence-capability development.

| Find out more: https://go.iiss.org/PDS26

We are delighted to announce that Air Marshal Paul Godfrey, Assistant Chief of Space Operations, Future Concepts and Par...
20/08/2026

We are delighted to announce that Air Marshal Paul Godfrey, Assistant Chief of Space Operations, Future Concepts and Partnerships, United States Space Force, will speak at this year’s IISS Prague Defence Summit.

After two successful years in 2024 and 2025 the IISS will again assemble over 250 government leaders, defence officials, senior industry representatives, analysts and media from the transatlantic community and beyond to discuss challenges and opportunities for European defence-capability development.

| Find out more: https://go.iiss.org/PDS26

The IISS looks forward to welcoming Anders Sjöborg, Deputy Chief Executive, European Defence Agency, as a speaker at the...
19/08/2026

The IISS looks forward to welcoming Anders Sjöborg, Deputy Chief Executive, European Defence Agency, as a speaker at the Prague Defence Summit 2026.

The IISS Prague Defence Summit is intended to inspire major public debate on European and transatlantic defence capability development, and to pave the way for practical steps that lead to the implementation of policy goals, particularly in the realm of defence innovation and procurement.

| Find out more: https://go.iiss.org/PDS26

The IISS is pleased to confirm Major General Richard Laurijssen, Director, Policy and Capabilities Division, Internation...
18/08/2026

The IISS is pleased to confirm Major General Richard Laurijssen, Director, Policy and Capabilities Division, International Military Staff, NATO, as a distinguished speaker at the Prague Defence Summit 2026.

The third IISS Prague Defence Summit will focus on Europe’s defence in a new era – covering transatlantic procurement, Europe's defence industrial and innovation ecosystem, the sustainability of NATO spending, military mobilisation, the future of NATO's land forces, and special sessions on deep-precision strike, logistics and military autonomy in space.

| Find out more: https://go.iiss.org/PDS26

🇮🇶 The transcript is now available for The Arms Control Primer: Better Know a Non-Nuke: Iraq! Host Dr Alexander Bollfras...
18/08/2026

🇮🇶 The transcript is now available for The Arms Control Primer: Better Know a Non-Nuke: Iraq!

Host Dr Alexander Bollfrass speaks with Dr Hans Blix and Dr Stephen Herzog about Iraq's secret nuclear programme, the inspections that exposed it in the 1990s and what those hard-won lessons mean for verification and non-proliferation today.

📄 Read the full transcript and listen to the episode: https://go.iiss.org/4wNVtnD

🎧 An AI-generated forecast rates it unlikely that Russia's Africa Corps will redeploy at least 500 troops from northern ...
17/08/2026

🎧 An AI-generated forecast rates it unlikely that Russia's Africa Corps will redeploy at least 500 troops from northern Mali to Bamako by 31 January 2027, even as insurgents increase the pressure on the capital.

What would that mean for the junta's hold on Bamako, the wider Sahel and Moscow's ambitions in Africa?

🔊 Charlie Edwards, Dr Dan Watson & Paul Melly

Listen now: go.iiss.org/4zeX5bx

Hostile intelligence services target Europe through remotely recruited proxies at an alarming pace. A permissive onlin...
17/08/2026

Hostile intelligence services target Europe through remotely recruited proxies at an alarming pace. A permissive online environment for recruitment has enabled the growing ‘gig economy’ of amateur intelligence operatives.

Tom Field, IISS Research Fellow for Strategy and National Security, shares his latest analysis and highlights three trends:

- The conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East have expanded the supply and demand for proxy actors.
- Europe has become an increasingly difficult operating environment for hostile intelligence officers.
- The relative ease with which hostile states can recruit proxies online.

Read the latest IISS analysis and find out more: https://go.iiss.org/4zBWIYW

Infrastructure, investment, procurement and regulation choices in Europe increasingly need to be judged against two basi...
16/08/2026

Infrastructure, investment, procurement and regulation choices in Europe increasingly need to be judged against two basic questions: ‘do they make countries and their societies safer?’, and ‘will they hold up under stress?’.

The latest IISS report, produced in cooperation with the Swedish Defence Research Agency in the context of the inaugural IISS Stockholm Civil Defence Forum, assesses the principal approaches to and challenges for advancing modern civil defence in Europe.

Read the latest research report: https://lnkd.in/d4V4MRuX

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