Mark Lancaster: Our army is creating a new type of soldier

The twenty-first century Division will have more strings to its bow than simply armoured vehicles, strike brigades, and air assault capabilities.

James Frayne: The best case for defence spending is the one least made

It is rare to hear the defence establishment talking plainly about the need to protect Britain against external threats.

Ruth Davis: Cyber threats are the new norm – and not just from Russia. Business needs to up its game.

Government research shows that the average person is roughly eleven times more likely to be the victim of cyber-crime than an in-person robbery.

Syria. May’s calculation and the dangers of a May miscalculation – to others and to her

She will be feeling a hand of history on her shoulder, and wondering if the other holds a knife at her back.

Bob Seely: Post-Brexit, we need to be the world’s smart power nation. Let’s make it happen.

Our plan seems to have been little more than to cobble together just enough kit to make us a Great Power on the cheap. That cannot continue.

Bruce Newsome: The Government must get real about counter-terrorism strategy

No more foreign funding of extremism. No more self-appointed “community” intermediaries. No more pretence that it’s all about cyberspace.

There should be no room for Putin apologism on the right

The fantasy that the Kremlin is more sinned against than sinning was once the preserve of Corbyn’s hard left. We should stop the rot.