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International | The Telegram

Can the West survive an age of brinkmanship?

It is time to relearn the cold-war arts of escalation management

|5 min read

DURING THE cold war, risk management was a life-or-death exercise for political and military leaders. To assist them, front-line troops in Europe and Asia were tasked with monitoring, in real time, how frightened the West should be of its adversaries.

U.S. Navy and NATO Allied ships participate in a steam formation during exercise Baltic Operations 2025 in the Baltic Sea, June 5, 2025

The flashing red threat from Russia’s dark fleet

NATO navies struggle to contain a new danger on the seas

A black and white photograph of a Tiger Tank at the Eastern Front in 1943.

The War Room newsletter: The best tanks of all time

In a bonus edition of our defence newsletter, Richard Cockett examines an icon from the battlefield


Libyan policemen arrest a group of migrants in Tripoli, Libya, July 26th 2025

Europe’s astonishing drop in illegal migration

Europe’s big, invisible wall is slowing boat crossings by migrants


The Economist Insider launches soon

A new premium video experience from The Economist, coming on October 9th

A made-in-China plan for world domination

Donald Trump is failing to stop China’s rise as a manufacturing superpower

The War Room newsletter: Why Trump wants a Taliban air base back

The president’s neo-imperial worldview has something to do with it, according to Shashank Joshi, our defence editor