RUSI Journal

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Issue: Dec 2005, Vol. 150, No. 6

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The Unhappy Warrior Warriors were once venerated – they are no longer.
Christopher Coker

Climate Change, Future Conflict and the Role of Climate Science There are a number of ways in which climate change might be expected to increase the likelihood of conflicts and change their nature.
Stephan Harrison

The Heart of Defence: Men and Women of the UK Armed Forces No matter how hard we work at modernizing systems and kit, it is – as it has always been – the very hearts, minds and souls of our excellent men and women that ultimately secure successful results.
Michael Walker

A Critique of Effects-Based Thinking It is perfectly possible to mandate sets of effects but, in the real environment of war, we can have little confidence in anyone’s ability to achieve them directly.
Jim Storr

Thinking about the Operational Level Without consideration of the operational level, it is easy to see the achievement of strategic success as merely the sum of tactical victories.
John Kiszley

Inside and Outside the Box: Individual Creativity Versus Military Orthodoxy Interesting departures of thought…are rarely, if ever, the product of committees, be they working or steering!
Jock Stirrup

Questions for the Debate on the Future of the UK Strategic Deterrent Assuming that a decision is taken in favour of continuity of deterrent capability, the UK will need a capability relevant to a variety of new threats.
Lee Willett

Expeditionary Operations in the Modern Era Expeditionary operations represent a strategic vocation – combining military and economic doctrines – which we can trace, unbroken, through the modern era.
Robert Fry

Confronting Strategic Irrelevance: The End of a US-Icelandic 'Security Community'? Having been a key strategic outpost during the Cold War and a close political ally to the United States, Iceland has been faced with a stark new geopolitical reality since the break-up of the Soviet Union: its military irrelevance.
Valur Ingimundarson

The Legacy of Trafalgar: Two Centuries of Contested Meaning The historical and professional treatment of Nelson and Trafalgar is more revealing of the age in which it was created than of the events of 1805.
Andrew Lambert

Double-Blind: Predicting the Pinochet Coup "The simple fact is that the US government had no significant input into the coup that killed Allende"
Kristian Gustafson

REVIEW of 'Lawrence of Arabia: The Life, the Legend' exhibition at the Imperial War Museum Owen Humphrys

COMMENT: Rhymes of History Richard Cobbold

No End in Sight: The Continuting Menace of Nuclear Proliferation Nathan Busch

Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War Robert A. Doughty

REVIEW ESSAY on Weapons Proliferation Joanna Spear

The Dieppe Raid: The Story of the Disastrous 1942 Expedition Robin Neillands

The Legend of Napoleon Sudhir Hazareesingh

The Official History of the Falklands Campaign Lawrence Freedman

The Trafalgar Companion Mark Adkin

The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World Rupert Smith