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Analysis: UK Election Interviews: Are the Armed Forces used as a political football? 20 Apr 2010
Part Five: General Sir Mike Jackson, Air Chief Marshal Sir Brian Burridge and Rear Admiral Chris Parry discuss the nexus between political debate and the consensus on the Armed Forces.

Defence Policy

Analysis: UK Election Interviews: Memo to an incoming government 20 Apr 2010
Part Six: In the final installment of these interviews, General Sir Mike Jackson, former Chief of the General Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Brian Burridge, former commander of British forces during Operation Telic and Rear Admiral Chris Parry, former Director General, Development, Concepts & Doctrine, offer their headline advice to an incoming government.

Analysis: The Strategic Defence Review: After Helmand 12 Apr 2010
After the UK General Elections, the promised Strategic Defence Review needs to be developed on the basis of the likely outcomes in Afghanistan. It may be essential to have a genuinely radical solution to the defence crisis where the three services would each need to commit themselves to a single mission and a unified doctrine.

Analysis: General Election 2010: Defence issues and the party positions 24 Mar 2010 by Professor Michael Clarke, Michael Codner
RUSI Director Professor Michael Clarke, and RUSI's Director of Military Sciences, Michael Codner, offer their assessment on the defence and security issues that may be raised either prior to or immediately after the UK General Election.

RUSI Defence Systems: The Conservative Prospect: Not an Easy Ride 3 Mar 2010
An in-coming Government would do well to learn the lessons of the previous SDR. UK security would not be well served by the Treasury dictating the terms

Conservative

RUSI Defence Systems: Doing Defence Acquisition Better: Making the Political Case 3 Mar 2010
Public pessimism over Britain's global counter-insurgency role not only must be tackled successfully, but can be, and a framework for acquisition reform needs to be constructed for implementation after the election

RUSI Defence Systems: Defence and the Growing Financial Challenge 3 Mar 2010 by Professor Trevor Taylor, Bill Kincaid CBE
The Ministry of Defence is in increasing financial difficulty as the financial needs of the MoD's Equipment Procurement Plan exceeds the potential financial resources. What are the likely solutions in the forthcoming Defence Review?

RUSI Defence Systems: Defence Procurement in Crisis: A Call for Leadership 3 Mar 2010
Manufacturing plays a vital role in any national economy but requires leadership, vision, professional knowledge and integrity.

International Institutions

Analysis: What Will Success Look Like in Operation Moshtarak? 16 Feb 2010 by Professor Michael Clarke
Operation Moshtarak is the most important campaign in Afghanistan since the invasion in 2001. Its success, however, will not be measured in military terms but in terms of public opinion, both in Helmand and the rest of Afghanistan and in the Coalition's domestic electorate.

Land Forces

Afghanistan

Central and South Asia

NATO