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: Oct 2003, Vol. 148, No. 5

< Last

Next >

Index

Africa and the War on Terror Far more people have been killed by domestic terrorists in Africa’s civil wars than by those motivated by international causes. Thus, for Africans, the real terrorist problems are internal.
Jeffrey Herbst and Greg Mills

Comment: Realities, Perceptions and Misperceptions Richard Cobbold

FOAS - UK Long Range Offensive Air Power for 2020 and Beyond The aim of this article is to offer some observations on what the future might require of the UK’s long range offensive air power capability and, in particular, to attempt to set the FOAS capability requirement within the overall context of the UK’s evolving defence needs.
Tim Anderson

Homeland Security Implications from the Battle of the Atlantic The purpose of this paper is to suggest that the struggle between Allied naval forces and German submarines in the Second World War – a largely asymmetric chapter of an otherwise symmetric war - presents useful implications for managing the threats posed today by Al Qa’ida.
Michael Dobbs

International Law and the Use of Force: Some Post 9/11 Perspectives This article focuses on the international law pertaining to the use of inter-state force, with specific reference to the recent military attack by a US-led coalition against Iraq.
Andre Stemmet

Kursk – Sixty Years On To say that the Battle of Kursk in July 1943 was one of the decisive battles of the world is no exaggeration. This article argues that for the Western allies to ignore such a battle is a serious error.

LETTERS

Marching To War: The Invasion Of Iraq – A Plan Fourteen Years In The Making To determine the root causes of the invasion of Iraq, it is most useful to look back at 1989, the collapse of the USSR and the debate within the US, and then trace the path of the ideology forward until the war was launched.
Tom Quiggin

Militarized Cultures in Collision: The Arms Trade and War in the Indian Ocean during the Nineteenth This article examines the impact of the arms trade on indigenous military culture and colonial warfare, before and after the ‘Breech-loader Revolution’ of the mid-nineteenth century.
Emrys Chew

Questioning the Images of War When national interest intensifies in a particular conflict, our exposure to war reportage increases but we have no experience against which to test these images and so do, in many cases, the image selectors themselves.
John Mackinlay

The Australian-led Intervention Force in the Solomons Islands The Australian operation to the Solomon Islands, which began in July 2003, is the biggest military deployment in the South Pacific since the Second World War.
Keith Suter

The UK-Japan Security Relationship: Complementing Each Other’s National Strengths Within the last couple of years, a more substantive security co-operation between the UK and Japan has come into being.
Reinhard Drifte

Transformation Towards Future Warfighting Any attempt to define or even discuss the nature of future warfighting depends upon timeframe and perspective.
Ian Forbes

UAVs and the Dawn of Post-Modern Warfare: A Perspective on Recent Operations The capabilities and contributions of UAVs have been propelled forward during operations of the last ten years – none more so than during the recent Iraq war.
Brian Burridge