Previous Events

Event: Military History Circle - Reflections on the Italian Campaign, 1944-1945: Two Illustrated Lectures 12:45, 21 Nov 2008, RUSI
Two short lectures by James Holland, writer and historian, exploring key aspects of the Italian Campaign, most prominently the strategic controversies and sheer awfulness of the war there for those concerned.

Event: Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature: Special Lifetime Achievement Award 10:30, 17 Nov 2008, RUSI
In addition to the 2008 Duke of Westminster Medal for Military Literature, the Board of Judges has decided to award a special Lifetime Achievement Award to Sir Max Hastings FRSL for his lifetime contribution to military literature.

Event: Military History Circle - RAF Air Power in the First Gulf War 12:45, 14 Nov 2008, RUSI
A presentation by Sebastian Cox, Head of the Air Historical Branch (RAF), UK Ministry of Defence, on the RAF’s contribution to the 1991 Gulf campaign.

Event: The current international financial situation and its impact on emerging markets - A speech by Mr Hiroshi Watanabe 14:00, 13 Nov 2008, The Chartered Accountants' Hall
A lecture by Mr Hiroshi Watanabe, President and CEO, Japan Bank for International Cooperation.

Conference: Postponed to March 2009, date to be confirmed: Transatlantic Defence Acquisition Symposium 09:00, 11 Nov 2008, RUSI
Postponed to March 2009, date to be confirmed. This two-day RUSI conference – the latest in RUSI’s series of annual Acquisition Symposia – is deliberately timed to take place immediately after the US Elections, but in good time to inform the incoming Administration and Congress as the new US Government prepares a refreshed vision for acquisition.

Event: Whitehall Dialogue: Securing the UK Border 12:45, 6 Nov 2008, RUSI
Presentation by Brodie Clark, Head of Border Force, UK Border Agency on the various border control and border force developments underway to establish a more secure UK border.

Event: Frontline Insights: Royal Air Force Tornado Operations Over Iraq 12:15, 3 Nov 2008, RUSI
The Royal United Services Institute is delighted to announce a forthcoming series of lunch-time presentations entitled ‘Front-line Insights’ at which unit commanders from recent operational deployments will share aspects of their personal experience of modern conflict.

Event: A Permanent United Nations Armed Intervention Force? 13:00, 30 Oct 2008, RUSI
Lord Malloch-Brown, Minister of State, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, will give the keynote lecture at this panel discussion, held in association with the United Nations Association of the UK.

Event: The path to a secure and democratic Pakistan: an address by Mr Imran Khan 14:30, 24 Oct 2008, RUSI
Imran Khan is Chairman of Pakistan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf party which he established in 1996 and which is enjoying growing popularity especially amongst the youth and the disenfranchised of the country. Mr. Khan’s political agenda is to fight corruption and to promote democratic freedom in Pakistan while his movement strives to combat illiteracy and abject poverty.

Conference: Crisis in the Horn of Africa 09:15, 23 Oct 2008, RUSI
The Horn of Africa was, and continues to be, Africa’s most tumultuous region. Although the disparate counties which make up the Horn of Africa community have made enormous strides in terms of development and investment, it is, for better or worse, the conflicts in the Horn of Africa which have focused international attention on the area.

Event: NATO Operations - Internal and External Challenges - General John Craddock 10:00, 20 Oct 2008, RUSI
As NATO heads towards its sixtieth anniversary, the Alliance remains involved in Afghanistan, one of the most challenging stabilisation missions in its history. Furthermore, it also continues to transform itself, in order to meet the complex security environment of the 21st century, and embrace a continent which is no longer divided by ideology or spheres of influence. All of these are daunting challenges but, if NATO has proved anything over the course of its existence, it is that the organisation remains resilient and adaptable.

Event: SOLD OUT: Tipping the balance? Russia and its relations with the West 12:30, 14 Oct 2008, RUSI
The consequences of the Russian-Georgian war now confront the West with a difficult choice: either opt for “partnership” with Russia at the expense of the sovereignty of some countries, or refuse to do so, and pay the price for what Moscow sees as “meddling” in its sphere of “influence”. This is the one choice that the West has tried to avoid making over the last two decades. But it is a fateful decision which can no longer be avoided.

Event: Frontline Insights: Operational Military Liaison Teams- Building The Afghan Army 12:15, 13 Oct 2008, RUSI
The Royal United Services Institute is delighted to announce a forthcoming series of lunch-time presentations entitled ‘Frontline Insights’ at which unit commanders from recent operational deployments will share aspects of their personal experience of modern conflict.

UK Resilience 2008: Contributions to Resilience 08:15, 8 Oct 2008, RUSI
This event will be of critical value to anybody with an interest in understanding what the future resilience of the UK will require, and what their or their organisation’s contributions to resilience will entail.

Conference: C4ISTAR 2008 09:00, 2 Oct 2008, Brighton Hilton
Programme Now Available for this year's C4ISTAR Conference

Conference: International Terrorism Conference 2008 09:00, 2 Oct 2008, RUSI
The conference brings together leading academics, senior practitioners and policy-makers to analyse failure and success in the intelligence, military, policing, social and diplomatic struggle against terrorism, asking “where do we go from here?” It will provide a secure and high-level forum to facilitate constructive debate between those who inform, formulate and implement counter-terrorism strategies.

Conference: Pakistan, the war on terror and strains with Western allies 09:30, 24 Sep 2008, RUSI
Without Pakistan’s full co-operation, the US and the broader international community cannot reconstruct Afghanistan, defeat the Taleban and turn the tide of international terrorism.

Event: Lord Trenchard Memorial Lecture 2008: The RAF - A Ninety Year History 13:00, 22 Sep 2008, RUSI
This year marks the ninetieth birthday of the Royal Air Force, an appropriate moment to look back over the force's history and to assess the changes and the continuities that have shaped its evolution. Professor Richard Overy will examine the political context for a force that has co-existed with Britain's ninety years as a full political democracy, in which the principal role of the force has been to defend and preserve that modern political heritage.

Workshop: Israel's Arab Citizens: Peering into the Future 13:00, 19 Sep 2008, RUSI
For decades, the status and fate of Israel’s Arab citizens has been a hotly disputed subject. They are full citizens of the state, but are not subjected to all the obligations of an Israeli citizen and – some argue - do not enjoy all the rights either. The difficult questions persist: who are these Arab citizens of Israel? Is their identity to be seen as merely a question of civic duties, or does it have wider strategic implications? Can they share several cultural and national identities at the at the same time? And, finally, can they act as a bridge between Israel and its immediate neighbours?

Event: NATO Secretary General at RUSI 15:30, 18 Sep 2008, RUSI
Ahead of a crucial Defence Ministerial in London, Secretary General of NATO, Mr Jaap de Hoop Scheffer spoke at RUSI and gave a wide-ranging exposition on the key issues facing the transatlantic alliance.

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