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Council on Geostrategy
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Dedicated to making Britain and other open nations stronger and greener. Co-founders: James Rogers and Viktorija Starych-Samuolienė 💻 https://www.geostrategy.org.uk/ 📩 https://councilongeostrategy.substack.com/subscribe
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Council on Geostrategy @congeostrategy.bsky.social · Feb 24
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Council on Geostrategy @congeostrategy.bsky.social · 1d
🐻‍❄️ ‘The Arctic matters to 🇬🇧 because it is where defence, resilience and strategic influence converge. 🇬🇧 northern security architecture...traverses Arctic waters where 🇨🇳 is building leverage, largely unnoticed by Westminster,’ says Ryan Wu, @ox.ac.uk

#BigAsk #BritainsWorld
Why does the Arctic matter to Britain?
The Big Ask | No. 41.2025
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Council on Geostrategy @congeostrategy.bsky.social · 1d
🚨 ‘As a key member of @NATO, 🇬🇧 plays a vital role in safeguarding critical infrastructure, such as undersea cables...and monitoring 🇷🇺 aggression (including #nuclear threats) across the #GIUKgap,’ says Dr Caroline Kennedy-Pipe, @lborouniversity.bsky.social

#BigAsk #BritainsWorld
Why does the Arctic matter to Britain?
The Big Ask | No. 41.2025
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Council on Geostrategy @congeostrategy.bsky.social · 1d
🌍 ‘The Arctic is no longer remote. It is the northern flank that 🇬🇧 cannot afford to ignore. 🇬🇧 must treat it as a front line of its national defence and strategic influence,’ writes Anthony Heron, @arcticinstitute.bsky.social

#BigAsk #BritainsWorld
Why does the Arctic matter to Britain?
The Big Ask | No. 41.2025
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Council on Geostrategy @congeostrategy.bsky.social · 1d
💰 ‘The Arctic is integral to European continental security on the one hand and economic opportunity on the other,’ argues @johnhemmings.bsky.social, our Deputy Director

#BigAsk #BritainsWorld
Why does the Arctic matter to Britain?
The Big Ask | No. 41.2025
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Council on Geostrategy @congeostrategy.bsky.social · 1d
🇨🇳 ‘Beijing’s strategic ambitions in the Wider North threaten to reshape the region, challenging 🇬🇧 interests,’ argues @sariarhohavren.bsky.social, @rusi.bsky.social

#BigAsk #BritainsWorld
Why does the Arctic matter to Britain?
The Big Ask | No. 41.2025
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Council on Geostrategy @congeostrategy.bsky.social · 1d
🧊 ‘The Arctic will continue to heat up, literally and figuratively, and 🇬🇧 relative proximity means that all of this will demand domain surveillance, infrastructural sustenance and analytical scrutiny,’ says @klausdodds.bsky.social, @randeurope.org

#BigAsk #BritainsWorld
Why does the Arctic matter to Britain?
The Big Ask | No. 41.2025
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Council on Geostrategy @congeostrategy.bsky.social · 1d
🚢 ‘The growing viability of Arctic shipping, exemplified by Istanbul Bridge, will reconfigure global trade...This could provide 🇬🇧 companies with a competitive edge in the Arctic,’ notes Arun Dawson, @warstudieskcl.bsky.social

#BigAsk #BritainsWorld
Why does the Arctic matter to Britain?
The Big Ask | No. 41.2025
www.britainsworld.org.uk
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Council on Geostrategy @congeostrategy.bsky.social · 1d
⚓ ‘Located along the 🇬🇱-🇮🇸-🇬🇧 gap, 🇬🇧 is the most important European naval power in the #NorthAtlantic, and plays an especially crucial role in anti-submarine warfare,’ writes @alanderminna.bsky.social, @chathamhouse.org

#BigAsk #BritainsWorld
Why does the Arctic matter to Britain?
The Big Ask | No. 41.2025
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Council on Geostrategy @congeostrategy.bsky.social · 1d
Why does the Arctic matter to 🇬🇧?

We asked 8 experts in today’s #BigAsk

✍️ @alanderminna.bsky.social, Arun Dawson, @klausdodds.bsky.social, @sariarhohavren.bsky.social, @johnhemmings.bsky.social, Anthony Heron, Dr Caroline Kennedy-Pipe, Ryan Wu

#BritainsWorld
Why does the Arctic matter to Britain?
The Big Ask | No. 41.2025
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Council on Geostrategy @congeostrategy.bsky.social · 2d
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Council on Geostrategy @congeostrategy.bsky.social · 2d
Our Co-founder (Research), @james-rogers.bsky.social speaks to @listentotimesradio.bsky.social on 🇷🇺 war against 🇺🇦
Why Putin's failure to capture Donbas puts his whole invasion at risk
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Council on Geostrategy @congeostrategy.bsky.social · 3d
This week’s #Cable is out now 👇

⚓ #ExerciseKonkan marks first 🇬🇧 and 🇮🇳 joint carrier strike group exercise
🖼️ Sputnik International accuses 🇬🇧 of ‘fostering Russophobia’
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Russian discussion: European leaders talk security in Copenhagen
The Cable | No. 40.2025
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Council on Geostrategy @congeostrategy.bsky.social · 4d
What can 🇮🇹 attacks on the RoyalNavy in WWII, and 🇺🇦 use of aerial and surface drones against 🇷🇺 ships in the Black Sea, teach us about asymmetric advantage today?

👉 Read Elio Calcagno in the #Broadside
Asymmetric naval warfare
Lessons from the Mediterranean in the Second World War
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Council on Geostrategy @congeostrategy.bsky.social · 4d
Find the #DefenceTalks podcast on YouTube now 👇

🚨Watch the latest episode on emerging technologies in defence now

#AI #QuantumComputing #Autonomy #Drones #EngineeringBiology

@baesystems.com
FULL EPISODE | Emerging technologies: Transforming the future of defence
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Council on Geostrategy @congeostrategy.bsky.social · 5d
🚨New episode of #DefenceTalks

👉 Dr Paul Hollinshead, DSTL, sets out the defence applications of engineering biology
👉 Finbar O’Keeffe, baesystems.com, argues that progress in different #em#emergingtechnologies interlinked

▶️ https://www.britainsworld.org.uk/p/emerging-technologies-transforming
Engineering biology in defence | Defence Talks
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Council on Geostrategy @congeostrategy.bsky.social · 5d
🇬🇧 silence on 🇹🇼 status allows 🇨🇳 to legitimise its expansionist territorial claims, argues Gray Sergeant, our Research Fellow (Indo-Pacific Geopolitics)

🔗 Read the full #Investigator on #ObservingChina
Raining on Xi’s parade: Clarifying Taiwan’s status
Why does Britain remain silent on Taiwan's legal status?
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Council on Geostrategy @congeostrategy.bsky.social · 8d
‘Since 2012, 🇬🇧 and 🇯🇵 have eased quietly into a de facto defence alliance, based on an aligned strategic outlook, co-dependency in critical areas of the defence industry, and converging interests in economic security’, says @shelter-jones.bsky.social, @rusi.bsky.social

#BigAsk #BritainsWorld
Should Britain and Japan move towards a formal defence alliance?
The Big Ask | No. 40.2025
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Council on Geostrategy @congeostrategy.bsky.social · 8d
‘To signal resolve credibly across the #IndoPacific, and to bolster deterrence against coercive revisionism, deepening 🇬🇧-🇯🇵 security ties is indispensable,’ argues Rena Sasaki, @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social

#BigAsk #BritainsWorld
Should Britain and Japan move towards a formal defence alliance?
The Big Ask | No. 40.2025
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Council on Geostrategy @congeostrategy.bsky.social · 8d
‘Geography, threat perception and strategic culture all ensure that a “formal” alliance remains a distant ideal,’ writes Dr William Reynolds, @DSD_Kings

#BigAsk #BritainsWorld
Should Britain and Japan move towards a formal defence alliance?
The Big Ask | No. 40.2025
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Council on Geostrategy @congeostrategy.bsky.social · 8d
‘The idea of forging a formal defence alliance between 🇬🇧 and 🇯🇵, in which the 2 countries commit to defend each other against aggression, cannot be credible, not least because they lack necessary military capabilities,’ says @michitotsuruoka.bsky.social, Keio University

#BigAsk #BritainsWorld
Should Britain and Japan move towards a formal defence alliance?
The Big Ask | No. 40.2025
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Council on Geostrategy @congeostrategy.bsky.social · 8d
‘Both countries’ challenges are increasingly common and obscure, such as addressing sub-threshold conflict,’ argues Takeshi Ishikawa, former Commissioner, ATLA, 🇯🇵 Ministry of Defence

#BigAsk #BritainsWorld
Should Britain and Japan move towards a formal defence alliance?
The Big Ask | No. 40.2025
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Council on Geostrategy @congeostrategy.bsky.social · 8d
‘Rather than engaging in lengthy treaty negotiations, 🇬🇧 and 🇯🇵 should focus on tangible outcomes, such as delivering #GCAP on time,’ says @wdjames.bsky.social, NTU Singapore

#BigAsk #BritainsWorld
Should Britain and Japan move towards a formal defence alliance?
The Big Ask | No. 40.2025
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Council on Geostrategy @congeostrategy.bsky.social · 8d
‘There is a growing perception among policymakers in both 🇬🇧 and 🇯🇵 that 🇷🇺 and 🇨🇳 are ever more aligned, that what occurs in one theatre affects the other, and that deterrence opportunism is a joint activity,’ writes Dr John Hemmings, our Deputy Director

#BigAsk #BritainsWorld
Should Britain and Japan move towards a formal defence alliance?
The Big Ask | No. 40.2025
www.britainsworld.org.uk
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Council on Geostrategy @congeostrategy.bsky.social · 8d
Should 🇬🇧 and 🇯🇵 move towards a formal defence alliance?

We asked 7 experts in today’s #BigAsk

✍️ Dr John Hemmings, Takeshi Ishikawa, @wdjames.bsky.social, Dr William Reynolds, Rena Sasaki, @shelter-jones.bsky.social, @michitotsuruoka.bsky.social

#BritainsWorld
Should Britain and Japan move towards a formal defence alliance?
The Big Ask | No. 40.2025
www.britainsworld.org.uk
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Council on Geostrategy @congeostrategy.bsky.social · 9d
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#Tracker #ObservingChina
Beijing issues contorted interpretation of UN Resolution 2758
Royal Navy gets a reaction out of China Coast Guard; PRC tech talent visa goes live
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