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Issue: Feb 2012, Vol. 157, No. 1
Cyber warfareCyber-Weapons While ready-made cyber 'weapons' may cause visible embarrassment and incovenience, truly destructive attacks will require bespoke and highly complex packages (Free access)
Thomas Rid and Peter McBurney
Cyberspace_conferenceDiplomatic Alternatives to Cyber-Warfare: A Near-Term Agenda International consensus defining a framework of legitimate behaviour in cyberspace is urgently needed
Paul Meyer
CDS and PMSoldiers, Strategy and Statesmen The relationship between politicians and generals may be strained, but it is as vital as ever to get it right
Mungo Melvin
David Cameron 2Policy-Making in Defence and Security: Lessons from the Strategic Defence and Security Review An insider's account of the SDSR suggests ways forward to ensure better delivery of national security policy
Mark Phillips
Troops AfghanistanInfluence, the Indirect Approach and Manoeuvre Influence, rather than being a radical new idea, has roots in a long tradition of manoeuvre warfare
Alexander Alderson
Greek riotThe EU's Alternative Futures Europe's political and financial turbulence is now reverberating into the security realm
Jonathan Eyal
Eurofighter 2The Latest Test for NATO An inside view of NATO operations in Libya assesses the achievements and limitations of the campaign
Mark Laity
Bundeswehr 2A Quiet Revolution: The Reform of the German Armed Forces The Bundeswehr is undergoing the most important change since the end of the Cold War
Bjoern H Seibert
JNA tankIn Pursuit of Unity: The West and the Breakup of Yugoslavia Western leaders plotted the wrong course in 1991 as Yugoslavia fell apart – but new evidence suggests they had enough prescient intelligence at the time to do otherwise
Josip Glaurdic
district commissionerNot Lawrence, but Lawrance: Transition in Afghanistan and After As the Afghan wind-down continues, the T E Lawrence myth is not helpful: Sir Arthur Lawrance is a better example
Brock Millman
RUSI CRESTReviews Including reviews by Christopher Coker, Ashley Jackson, MacGregor Knox, and more

RUSI CRESTLetters Letters on British atrocities in counter-insurgency, and missile defence

 
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