Publications

From Ukraine’s Wartime Adaptation to Europe’s Defence Readiness: Learning from Ukraine’s Adaptive Governance in the Defence Sector

From Ukraine's Wartime Adaptation to Europe's Defence Readiness, co-published with the Better Regulation Delivery Office (BRDO), analyses how Ukraine has embedded adaptive capacity across its defence sector, enabling faster learning and institutional adjustment. It uses Ukraine’s wartime experience to develop a concept of ‘adaptive defence governance’ and assess how its lessons can inform European defence readiness in largely peacetime conditions.

Teaching the humans in the loop: supporting and integrating Ukraine's unmanned systems training into Europe's Security Architecture

Teaching the Humans in the Loop: Supporting and Integrating Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Training into Europe's Security Architecture draws on Ukraine's unmanned systems training experience to call for a European ‘drone training-industrial complex’. It argues that in peacetime countries, training at scale provides the means to ensure constant learning and innovation.

Time Domain: A New Dimension of the Battlefield, Revealed by the Experience of the Russo-Ukrainian War

Time Domain: A New Dimension of the Battlefield, Revealed by the Experience of the Russo-Ukrainian War analyses how the speed of innovation, rather than mass or firepower alone, now defines battlefield advantage. It explains how this logic defined the creation of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces, a dedicated branch in its military.

Apps at War: Army+, Reserve+ and the Rise of Digital Defence Governance in Ukraine

Apps at War: Army+, Reserve+ and the Rise of Digital Defence Governance in Ukraine, co-published with the Better Regulation Delivery Office (BRDO), documents how digital platforms improve military administration and state responsiveness, offering a model for how European states can modernise defence bureaucracy as part of a resilient security architecture.

Partnering with Ukraine | Rearming Europe through defence industrial cooperation

Partnering with Ukraine: Rearming Europe through Defence Industrial Cooperation examines models, including joint ventures and simplified export arrangements, for strengthening European and Ukrainian defence industrial cooperation to support Europe's rearmament. Drawing lessons from early initiatives, it recommends how to scale cooperation and integrate Ukrainian defence production into Europe’s long-term security architecture.

Ukraine's Drone Ecosystem and the Defence of Europe: Lessons Lost Can't be Learned

Ukraine's Drone Ecosystem and the Defence of Europe finds that Ukraine's decentralised, rapidly iterating drone production model has outpaced traditional procurement systems and recommends that European states integrate with rather than just replicate this ecosystem.

From the Black Sea to the British Isles

From the Black Sea to the British Isles examines the Black Sea’s evolving security, trade and political dynamics amid Russia’s war against Ukraine. It highlights the need to safeguard Ukraine’s maritime resilience while building a durable framework for deterrence, cooperation and connectivity between the UK, Ukraine and other Black Sea states.

How Myanmar’s War Became the World’s Second Biggest Drone Fight

How Myanmar's War Became the World's Second Biggest Drone Fight examines how drones have become a structurally significant feature of Myanmar’s civil war. It shows how inexpensive, adaptable systems are reshaping operations for both the military and resistance forces, demonstrating the growing importance of drones in conflicts worldwide.