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: Defence Information Superiority (formerly the RUSI C4ISTAR Conference)
29-30 June 2010
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RUSI Future Maritime Operations Conference 2010
7-8 July 2010
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: Working Paper Series

Number 1
Preparing for the Lean Years
How will British defence spending fare in an age of austerity?
By Malcolm Chalmers

Number 2
A Force for Honour
Military Strategic Options for the United Kingdom
By Michael Codner

Number 3
Multilateral Approaches to Security
Choices for defence
By Andrew Rathmell

Number 4
Jointery and the Emerging Defence Review
By Trevor Taylor

Number 5
Capability Cost Trends: Implications for the Defence Review
By Malcolm Chalmers

Number 6
The Defence Review: Capability Questions for the New Government
By Michael Codner

Number 7
A Question of Balance? The Deficit and Defence Priorities
By Malcolm Chalmers

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Analysis: Cuba: Threat or Paranoia? 27 Aug 2010
As Cuba is designated once again a state sponsor of terrorism by the United States, the fifty year old hostilities are returned to the spotlight. But how much of a threat does this Communist regime really pose to the world’s only superpower?

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RUSI Journal: Terrorism: The New Wave 26 Aug 2010 by Professor Michael Clarke
A new wave of terrorists, highly motivated but lightly trained, are emerging, creating a new risk that has yet to be fully understood

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Analysis: Conclusion of US Combat Mission in Iraq: Beginning of the End, or End of the Beginning? 24 Aug 2010
As the US government prepares for its 2011 withdrawal date from Iraq, the finishing post may be further than anticipated.

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Analysis: Dawn of Nuclear Age Breaks Over Bushehr 24 Aug 2010 by Mark Thomas
While the operational launch of Bushehr may receive only passing attention in the media, it represents a significant step forward for Iran’s potential nuclear weapons capability. With the danger of a nuclear domino affect hitting the Gulf States, how far can Iran’s claims of using nuclear technology for solely peaceful purposes be trusted?

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News: RUSI Journal article highlights major gap in current strategic security debate 23 Aug 2010
The Royal Navy is dangerously weak, risking the silent principles of the UK's national security unless the future fleet is restored and adequately sized, claims a new article in the latest Journal of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).

RUSI Journal: Why Things Don't Happen: Silent Principles of National Security 22 Aug 2010
The strategic defence and security review must attend to the silent principles of national security that are primarily safeguarded by the maritime capability

Maritime Forces

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RUSI Journal: Why Britain Doesn't Do Grand Strategy 22 Aug 2010
The persistent failure to conceive and study strategy in Britain will undermine its efforts to draft a lasting framework for defence and security from the current SDSR process

Defence Policy

RUSI Journal: The Leak before the Storm: What WikiLeaks Tells us About Modern Communication 22 Aug 2010
The now-infamous deluge of raw intelligence via the WikiLeaks website has exposed Western governments' inability to come to terms with the digital information age

Intelligence

Information

RUSI Journal: Churchill and the Norwegian Campaign 22 Aug 2010
The campaign in Norway was a military fiasco, but it changed the course of British politics

History

RUSI Journal: The Art of Conversation: Revising Strategic Communications 22 Aug 2010
To get StratComs right in Afghanistan, we must engage in two-way dialogue not one-way messaging

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Information