RUSI Journal

The RUSI Journal is the leading publication of the Institute. First published in 1857, it is now an internationally-recognized authority on defence and security issues.

Issue: Feb 2003, Vol. 148, No. 1

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Between Peace and War: Iraq in Perspective This article discusses several questions that need to be considered, before the decision to go to war with Iraq is made.
Douglas Hurd

BOOK REVIEWS Including reviews by Beatrice Heuser, Jeremy Black, Christopher Coker and John Mackinley

COMMENT: Trust Secrecy & Force Comment by former RUSI Director
Rear Admiral Richard Cobbold

International Law and the Use of Force: Attacking Iraq An assessment of the legality of the Iraq war, taking into consideration the nuances of international law.
Michael N Schmitt

Men at War: The Sources of Morale This article won First Prize in the 2002 Trench Gascoigne Essay prize competition.
Ian Bellany

Missile Defence from the Inside: An Interview with the Director of the Missile Defence Agency Dr Michael Rance's interview with Lieutenant General Ronald T. Kadish, the Director of the US Department of Defense's Missile Defence Agency (MDA) since its establishment in January 2001.
Michael Rance

Regional Demographics and the War on Terrorism The ultimate success of the United States and her allies in the war on terrorism will depend upon myriad variables.
Brian Nichiporuk

Reserve Forces - The Nations Insurance Policy: How the Conservatives Should Repair the Damage Peter Viggers MP discusses the impact of the 1998 Strategic Defence Review and the increasing inability of the nation’s Volunteer Reserves, especially the Territorial Army, to meet the requirements that the nation has a right to expect of them.
Peter Viggers

Singapores Security Concerns post-9/11 Singaporean analyst Mark Hong explores Singapore’s new approach to security in the aftermath of 9/11.
Mark Hong

The First World War and Radio Development War spurs innovation, and the First World War has quite rightly been pinpointed as a huge accelerator for technical modernity and the radio made an almost quantum developmental leap, not only revolutionizing war but also altering society irrevocably.
Dean Juniper

The Territorial Army - The Need for a New Vision Statement Alex Tucker examines whether there is a need for a new vision for Britian’s Reserve Forces, by comparing and contrasting Haldane's Defence Review with the SDR in order to identify the fundamental principles that a new Vision Statement. might encompass.
Alex Tucker

What use was SOE? One of Britain’s pre-eminent experts on the Special Operations Executive (SOE), discusses the origins and role of the one of the nine war-time secret sevrices, devoted to sabotage and subversion.
M R D Foot

What would Sun Tzu say about the War on Terrorism Even if the Art of War is more often cited than read, it pays close reading in the early 21st century by those who have chosen war as a profession. In the ‘war on terrorism' it may well be one of the most important texts of all.
Christopher Coker

Achieving Effect: Annual Chief of Defence Staff Lecture In RUSI’s Annual Chief of Defence Staff Lecture, Admiral Sir Michael Boyce on force: the effects that our Armed Forces have to have in their operational theatres; the skills we need; developments in our role, the way we operate and our strategy; and the need to move towards effects based campaigning by undergoing Transformation and developing a Network Enabled Capability.
Michael Boyce

After Prague: Relations between NATO and the EU Since the Prague Summit in November 2002, the burgeoning relationship between NATO and the EU has become clearer. This relationship is rooted in an increasingly common agenda based on the same interests and a belief that the way forward is a more dynamic interaction between the organizations across a wide range of issues.
Emyr Jones Parry