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Books / The West has become its own worst enemy

On 27 January 2024, Iranian-backed militants launched a one-way attack drone at the US base known as Tower 22 in the Syria-Iraq borderlands. It hit...

04.08.2026 10

The Spectator

Mark Piesing

Books / The West has become its own worst enemy

On 27 January 2024, Iranian-backed militants launched a one-way attack drone at the US base known as Tower 22 in the Syria-Iraq borderlands. It hit...

04.08.2026 10

The Spectator

Mark Piesing

What a battle in space might look like

Satellite killers: What a war in space might look like The satellites that orbit Earth have remained largely untouched in modern conflict. But in the...

31.07.2026 20

BBC

Mark Piesing

The aircraft carrier which shows the deep flaw in Britain’s navy

The 400-mile-wide stretch of water between the Svalbard archipelago and the mainland of northern Norway has a nickname: Bear Gap. It is the only way...

13.06.2026 30

The Spectator

Mark Piesing

The 'dead zones' spreading across the Baltic Sea

The hidden dead zones spreading across the Baltic Sea floor Bornholm is a strategically located, remote island in the heavily polluted Baltic Sea. Now...

26.05.2026 30

BBC

Mark Piesing

Are we prepared for a British Pearl Harbor?

Barbarossa. Pearl Harbor. Swindon? Surprise attacks can, in a moment, change the course of history, the destiny of a nation and the future of a...

24.03.2026 40

The Spectator

Mark Piesing

The inside story of how America got to the Moon

On March 16, 1966, Neil Armstrong and David Scott became the first astronauts ever to dock with another spacecraft when they linked their Gemini 8...

13.02.2026 20

The Spectator

Mark Piesing

Blended wings: The shape of airliners to come?

The concept of blended-wing aircraft – where fuselage and wing are all one structure – is not new. But this radical design might soon be a...

09.11.2025 40

BBC

Mark Piesing

The company taking a gamble on the world's biggest plane

The WindRunner is an ambitious aircraft project that could make it easier to use larger wind turbines. The company behind it, however, has never built...

31.07.2025 50

BBC

Mark Piesing

Books / Remembering Hiroshima 80 years on

05.06.2025 40

The Spectator

Mark Piesing

The space archaeologists saving cosmic history

The infrastructure of humanity's journey into space may only be decades old, but some of it has already been lost. A new generation of "space...

17.05.2025 40

BBC

Mark Piesing