Former Director of Special Forces: The Queen is Dead, Long Live the King!
We all knew that this sad day was inevitable but still held eternal hope that we would somehow find ourselves not having to utter those four sober and solemn words: ‘The Queen is dead.’ That day has come, and we…
Former ambassador on China and Taiwan – steering clear of the red lines
In mid-August, China’s angry response to US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taipei was to fire live missiles over Taiwan and into its territorial waters and hold military exercises closer than ever before to the island. Tension…
Former army chief calls on King Charles to stop campaigning and become as “inscrutable” as his late mother
Lord Richard Dannatt, former head of the British Army, writes exclusively for National Security News, urging King Charles III to “take on the same mantle of inscrutability” as his beloved late mother, and serve Britain and the armed forces in…
Putin’s Arsenals of Evil – Iran & North Korea
by Mark Toth and Jon Sweet. In February, no one predicted Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine would result in Moscow becoming militarily dependent on rogue states – including Iran and North Korea – operating, in effect,…
Ukraine calls for China to be sanctioned for enabling Russia’s war crimes
Dennis Rice, reporting from the Senate, Washington DC. China is facing an extraordinary double whammy of sanctions over its aggression towards Taiwan and what one of the Ukraine’s most powerful politicians termed as its “hypocritical” stance over the former Russian…
Her Majesty the Queen has died, Buckingham Palace announces
Her Majesty the Queen, Britain’s longest serving monarch, passed away on Thursday afternoon, aged 96, at Balmoral. Senior members of the Royal family rushed to her bedside at the Scottish estate, where she had earlier been placed “under medical supervision.”…
Taliban and Russia on brink of striking trade deal to undermine sanctions – say Afghan officials
The Taliban is on the brink of securing a multi-billion-dollar deal to import oil and gas from Russia, according to Afghan officials. Bilateral trade between the two once warring nations is currently worth US$200 million annually, but this agreement would…
Indian universities unwittingly enabling North Korean cyber crime, study reveals
North Korean hackers posing as foreign students are weaponising the computer faculties of Indian universities to carry out crimes around the world, according to a shocking new study. Cyber security firm Recorded Future’s Insikt Group, identified the hackers as state-sponsored…
Pan Asian expert on Truss v. Sunak PM battle: Sunak not flexible enough and could harm Britain abroad
Dr Cenk Tamer, a research fellow who specialises in Asia-Pacific affairs, analyses the possible outcome for global security from either Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak as Britain’s new prime minister. While nowhere near the scale of “when America sneezes, the…
Senior civil servants in Germany accused of working for Putin against own ministry – secret service investigating
TWO Russian spies have reportedly been unearthed working at the heart of Germany’s Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs. The pair are both senior civil servants under the country’s current economy minister Robert Habeck, having also worked under his predecessor Peter…
