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This #RemembranceSunday, watch our event with @CWGC on why commemoration still matters, and how it can help nations meet today’s challenges. Featuring Sir Hew Strachan, Claire Horton CBE and @MarkUrban01: bit.ly/4BLA94O

With the US midterm results in, what changes for Ukraine, European security and UK defence? RUSI's @rach_ellehuus looks at how a Democratic-controlled Congress could limit the president’s room to manoeuvre on the Ukraine war, and why it may be easier to bring back the Russia sanctions bill and continued military assistance.

Ukraine’s rasputitsa - mud season - will slow Russian manoeuvre and strain the railways supplying its forces in occupied territory. 'Constrained battlefield advancements will probably force a greater reliance on aerial drone and missile attacks, with President Putin cognisant that Ukraine's interceptor supplies are dwindling', writes Emily Ferris in the latest #RUSICommentary.
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Why do military jets escort planes after a bomb threat? RUSI's Robert Jordan, Director of Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, spoke to @BBCr4today about why airlines treat every threat seriously, why flights are diverted, and why military escorts are standard procedure, not a cause for alarm.

Ships linked to Iran have been loitering over subsea cables in the Gulf of Oman. RUSI’s Dr Sidharth Kaushal tells the @FT the manoeuvres could be a coincidence, but “Iran might be trying to demonstrate its capacity to damage undersea infrastructure if there is a war.”
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