


Why Britain Doesn't Do Grand Strategy
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
Why Things Don't Happen: Silent Principles of National Security
The strategic defence and security review must attend to the silent principles of national security that are primarily safeguarded by the maritime capability
Terrorism: The New Wave
A new wave of terrorists, highly motivated but lightly trained, are emerging, creating a new risk that has yet to be fully understood
The 'Irreducible Minimum': Al-Qa'ida in Iraq and the Effectiveness of Leadership Decapitation
Leadership decapitation is unleashing a Hydra in Iraq, as Al-Qa'ida withstands the assassination of its top ranks
The Afghanistan Choice: Peace or Punishment in the Pashtun Belt
Success in Afghanistan requires complementary counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency on both sides of the Durand Line
The Leak before the Storm: What WikiLeaks Tells us About Modern Communication
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
The Art of Conversation: Revising Strategic Communications
To get StratComs right in Afghanistan, we must engage in two-way dialogue not one-way messaging
Zimbabwe's Security Services: Views from the Inside
Zimbabwe's military establishment is underpinned by nepotism and Mugabe's favouritism. But can it withstand growing resentment in the lower ranks?
The Battle of Britain: A Reassessment
There is more to the Battle of Britain than dogfights over the Channel
Churchill and the Norwegian Campaign
The campaign in Norway was a military fiasco, but it changed the course of British politics