RUSI Journal

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Issue: Feb 2007, Vol. 152, No. 1

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Defence Perspectives: Defending the United Kingdom and its Interests To defend Britain's interests, Britain must combine 'soft' with 'hard' power argues Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Tony Blair

A Note on the Prime Minister’s Lecture Now is the time for a public debate on the nation’s military strategy and the new security environment
Michael Codner

British Defence in a Changing World UK officers in all three services have faced challenges across the full spectrum of conflict – high-end war fighting, peacekeeping, reconstruction and development, capacity building, humanitarian assistance, and more besides. They need all our support.
Jock Stirrup

The Strategic Vision for Navies So what is the role for maritime forces in this rapidly changing world?
Jonathon Band

Maritime Strategy: Historical Perspectives Strategy traditionally defined at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was what generals, not admirals, did.
Hew Strachan

Regular and Irregular Indigenous Forces for a Long Irregular War Our enemies understand that irregular war is the bane of regular military traditions.
Robert Cassidy

Redefining Warfare Militaries tend to be conservative,and most use principles of war based more upon early nineteenth century thinking than that of today’s information age.
Peter Layton

Understanding the Status Quo: Perception and Reality on China-Taiwan Relations The status quo is a largely meaningless phrase and a dangerous ambiguity that has evolved to extend the existence of another dangerous ambiguity: the one China policy.
June Teufel Dreyer

The Middle East in an Age of Globalization States, Revolts and Cultures There is a bleak road ahead in the Middle East. Positive outcomes are unlikely in a variety of states: popular sentiment in the region isn’t moving in our direction anytime soon.
Fred Halliday

Killing Pablo’s Image: Security and State-Building in Colombia Columbia is no longer a country out of control, hooked on a cocktail of drugs, power, exotic women, right-wing paramilitaries, and radical Marxist and Maoist guerrillas, all bent on making the state ungovernable.
Greg Mills & Lyal White

Iran – The Other Arms Race While the Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would, of course, have enormous strategic ramifications throughout the region and beyond, it is far from certain that it would provoke a nuclear arms race with any country. Much more likely, instead, is an arms race to acquire a clear edge in the means to wage conventional war.
Roger Howard

A Tale of Three Forts In 1812, Britain demonstrated that the coastline of the US was vulnerable to the Royal Navy. Coastal defences were refortified but they were used to defend internal threats -- the Confederates -- rather than foreign navies.
David Kirkpatrick

Book Reviews: February 2007 Reviews by Christopher Coker, Andrew Brookes, Gary Sheffield and Alexander Evans