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V-Force: Britain’s Nuclear Bombers

Originally supplanting paratroops as a means of delivering soldiers precisely onto the battlefield, air assault became the standard for strategic planning in the Cold War. But as air threats have escalated, has peer-on-peer conflict made the tactic obsolete?

For centuries, this critical yet tiny city has sat at a crossroads of world trade, and has suffered under numerous conflicts to the present day

Of the hundreds of thousands of asteroids in our solar system, it is all too feasible that one could strike Earth. If scientists discover this is likely to happen, what are our options for defending ourselves – and who will make the key decisions? Tomas Weber reports

DEFENSE

“I grew up playing with figures like Action Man and not video games, so to own a Humvee like the one he drove is a dream come true,” says Samuel Ogunlana. Note, it’s a Humvee, the US military vehicle