Sky knows that several figures featured in The Wargame have current commercial links to the defence sector. AOAV asks why those interests remain absent from their biographies.
Who benefits when security becomes a permanent emergency? Oxford anthropologist Ruben Andersson talks to AOAV’s Iain Overton about the politics and profits of fear, the expansion of surveillance, and why diplomacy and peace deserve a hearing.
The party's rise has been fuelled by strong patriotic messaging, yet important questions remain about its approach to security and armed violence.
Drill and rap lyrics are increasingly being used as evidence in British courts. But violent music should not be treated as autobiography, nor performance as proof of participation in violent crime.
AOAV analysis finds a stark ideological divide in British media coverage of the Afghanistan Inquiry, with right-wing outlets far more likely to portray scrutiny of alleged SAS killings as a witch hunt, lawfare or a threat to national security.
Since 1 January 2011, Belgian artist Dieter Ohler has spent every day recording newspaper headlines about deaths around the world, creating thousands of handwritten pages that explore how journalism turns human lives into numbers.
A practical guide to some of the most important investigations, journalists and organisations exposing how artificial intelligence is being developed and deployed in modern warfare.
AOAV and SOAS brought together journalists, researchers and experts to examine how artificial intelligence, surveillance, big tech and automated targeting are reshaping warfare, civilian harm and the investigative methods needed to expose responsibility across increasingly opaque military systems.
A series of billionaires with ties to Britain remain untouched by the UK’s supposedly tough sanctions regime.
A new YouGov survey finds Reform UK voters are five times more likely than Green supporters to favour nuclear retaliation after a devastating attack on Britain, exposing deep political divisions over deterrence, alliance politics and the protection of civilians.
The Economist’s appointment of former 77th Brigade commander Major General Alex Turner as defence editor raises questions about whether the esteemed paper's defence journalism can now maintain sufficient independence from military institutions when senior practitioners of information warfare move into such influential media roles.
Here AOAV finds that UK media outlets frequently present retired senior military figures as independent defence experts without disclosing their commercial ties to defence, security, intelligence, and technology industries, potentially obscuring conflicts of interest in public debates over war and military spending.