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.

Unless we recognise Umberto Eco’s characteristics of fascism shaping contemporary militarism, we risk sleepwalking into catastrophic global conflict, says AOAV’s Executive Director Iain Overton.

Hollywoodgate is a powerful documentary that exposes the disturbing reality of the Taliban’s rise to power, part fuelled by the vast stockpile of U.S. military weapons left behind after the American withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Iain Overton looks at the impact of the Russian invasion on Ukraine’s journalists, recording their experiences of a war that has impacted all of their lives.