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A transatlantic rift is unsettling the land of fire and ice, writes Anton La Guardia, our diplomatic editor
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Shashank Joshi, our defence editor, examines why conflict exerts a “strange pull”

Shashank Joshi looks back on eight years as defence editor

Entire campaigns—and the fate of civilisations—have turned on a siege, writes Richard Cockett, a senior editor

Jonathan Rosenthal, our international editor, takes an infantry fighting vehicle for a spin

There is no simple way to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, writes Shashank Joshi, our defence editor

Anshel Pfeffer, our Israel correspondent, examines why so few of the country’s former generals succeed in politics