RUSI Journal

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Issue: Dec 2002, Vol. 147, No. 6

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Energy Security Securing supplies of affordable energy is absolutely vital to maintaining Europe’s security and competitiveness in a rapidly globalizing world. It requires a strong Europe which can both reform its domestic energy markets and act coherently beyond its borders.
Peter Hain

Implications of Sino-Military Co-operation after 11 September Li-yu Han, assesses the likely shape of future Sino-Russian relations and its impact on the regional and global security situation, including the matter of Taiwan
Li-yu Han

Keeping the African Peace In the 21st Century Saif Al Islam Al Qadhafi, son of Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi and heir-apparent, outlines his thoughts on peace and security on the African continent.
Saif Al Islam Al Qadhafi

Letters - December 2002

Maritime Security and the Terrorist Threat Sir Jonathon Band discusses maritime security
Jonathon Band

Missile Defence in a New Strategic Environment: The View from Washington John Bolton discusses the demise of the ABM Treaty and its implications for the future of missile defence.
John Bolton

Missile Defence in a New Strategic Environment: The View from Whitehall The Government is taking very seriously the issues raised by the proliferation of ballistic missiles, which could in time come to threaten all of NATO territory with weapons of mass destruction delivered directly to our homelands.
Lord Bach of Lutterworth

Romania and NATO King Michael I of Romania explains the reasons why Romania was invited to join NATO, and the role his country will play inside the Alliance.
King Michael I of Romania

RUSI Martial Potency Index This Index gives a measure of a nation’s ability to use its armed forces to influence events beyond its own borders.
Michael Codner

Sentries, Guarding Instructions and Lethal Force: From the Present to the Past Professor Gerry Rubin reviews two cases fifty years ago of Gordon Linsell and Robert Fargie and the issue of the law applicable to guards in regards to the use of lethal force.
Gerry Rubin

The European Aldershot for the Second World War? The Battle of the Ebro, 1938 After defeat at the Battle of the Ebro during the Spanish Civil War, the republic rapidly lost its material and psychological will to win and collapsed in March 1939.
Matthew Hughes

The Yin and Yang of Counter-Terrorism Since the end of the Cold War it has become much easier to tackle security issues by positive action. Western actors can go out to stop fights or even start them with no risk of escalation into world war, and relatively little exposure to classic tit-for-tat retaliation.
Alyson Bailes

US-Saudi Relations and the (irrelevant) Court of Public Opinion Regardless of the negative image the United States and Saudi Arabia may have in each other’s media,
Jalil Roshandel and Sharon Chadha

After Afghanistan - The Role of Air Power Air Chief Marshal Sir John Day, Commander-in-Chief Strike Command, outlines the direction in which air power may need to evolve an presents an analysis of lessons that may be gleaned from operations in Afghanistan.
John Day