At the Farnborough defence show, missiles, drones and military technology were presented as instruments of security and progress. AOAV examines how the language of the arms trade separates weapons from the civilians they kill.

AOAV argues here that Britain’s modern military-industrial complex has expanded beyond defence manufacturing into politics, finance and technology, raising profound questions about democratic accountability and the protection of civilians in war.

Here AOAV examines how Britain’s historic and contemporary military involvement, arms exports and strategic alliances across the Middle East have linked the UK, directly or indirectly, to conflicts and alleged human-rights violations across the region.

This report examines how North and South Korea have pursued fundamentally divergent military development trajectories since the 1953 armistice — the DPRK centred on nuclear deterrence and regime survival, the ROK on technological modernisation and alliance integration — and assesses the regional and global stability implications of these asymmetrical paths.