RUSI Journal

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Issue: Aug 2003, Vol. 148, No. 4

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Britains Armed Forces for Tomorrows Defence The purpose of this article is to provide a progress report on the British Armed Forces' developing thinking on tomorrow’s defence as we move through the twenty-first century.
Geoff Hoon

Countering Terrorism The threat from international terrorism is with us for a long time. This article illustrates that countering terrorism is an important issue, and not one limited to the intelligence agencies and the police.
Eliza Manningham-Buller

Forcible Population Transfers - A Flawed legacy or an Unavoidable Necessity in Protracted Conflicts The correlation between war and the enforced displacement of civilian populations is not a new phenomenon. Nevertheless, incidents of ‘ethnic cleansing’ have been steadily increasing in recent decades.
Martin D Brown

Future of Land Warfare The task of this article is to give a British perspective on the future of land warfare.
Mike Jackson

Gothas Over London By the spring of 1917, the German high-flying, bombing aeroplane, an evolved rather than created machine, had reached its technical apotheosis.
Dean Juniper

LETTERS : The Crucial Impact of Space Launchers upon Military Operations using Space

Military and the Media The speed with which the Iraq war was won gave us no time to reflect on the complexity of the new kind of relationship that was forged there between the military and the media.
Richard Sambrook

NATO & Mediterranean Security: Practical Steps Towards partnership The general background of a transforming NATO in a new security environment argues for a new departure in NATO’s Mediterranean Dialogue as well.
George Robertson

On Dinosaurs and Hornets – a Critical View on Operational Moulds in Asymmetric Conflicts This article focuses on characteristics of asymmetric conflict and challenges to the operational commander.
Gal Hirsch

Space as an Enabler in Modern Military Operations This article focuses on the broader issues that influence our thinking about the use of space amd offers a views on some of the priorities for future space-based systems.
Anthony Bagnall

Space-Enabled Warfare The integrated use of space capabilities along with other capabilities has been beneficial to the US armed forces.
Robert Kehler

Syria Keeps its Options Open Now that Washington’s focus is on Iran, Damascus has recovered much of its poise, declining to give way on substantive issues and almost cheekily reminding the US both of its potential value as a partner and of its ability to make life difficult for parties that ignore its interests.
Alan George

The Fight Against Terrorism: Achieving a New Balanced Normality The terrorist methodology includes both old and new means of attack. The importance of the conjunction of the old and the new is that there is a key role for combined endeavour to enhance defence and reduce public danger.
David Veness

The Secret State Revisited: Part I According to this article, 9/11 was a GBE (a ‘Great Big Event’) and that, piece-by-piece, the new, enhanced protective state in the UK is reflecting that.
Peter Hennessy

The Secret State Revisited: Part II The public today is looking to Government and has high expectations that it will hold the risks to them from terrorism to as low a level as is reasonably practicable.
David Omand

The Secret State Revisited: Part III This article offers a few observations on how defence intelligence operates.
Martin Howard