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Celebrating UK Black History Month: Learning Resources, a Read & Watch List, and Content Creation Tools

• Germany Can Only Field Five BattalionsMarch 21, 2026
  Germany has, on paper, an army of three divisions. In practice, according to a research fellow at the Council on Geostrategy, even with three months’ warning Germany would struggle to field beyond five battalions outside its own borders. Five battalions. Against an adversary that has been on a war footing for four years, that deploys 8,000 kamikaze drones per day in Ukraine, and that has …
• Only 16% of European Citizens Still Consider the United States An AllyMarch 21, 2026
  In November 2025, the European Council on Foreign Relations surveyed Europeans about their view of the United States. Only 16 percent still considered the United States an ally. That’s down from 22 percent eight months earlier. Twenty percent now consider the United States a rival or adversary. In Germany, France, and Spain, that number approaches 30 percent. NATO was built on the premise that Europe …
• Nuclear Bomb DominoMarch 21, 2026
  Iran’s nuclear facilities were bombed. The IAEA says the sites weren’t destroyed. Iran still holds 440 kilograms of highly enriched uranium. The Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk says Iran’s capacity was “marginally degraded” but the incentives to go nuclear have “gone through the roof.” Iran goes nuclear. Saudi Arabia, which signed a mutual defence agreement with nuclear-armed Pakistan in September 2025 and …