The Chancellor, George Osborne, has announced that funding for the renewal of Britain's nuclear deterrent must come from the Ministry of Defence's core budget. RUSI's Malcolm Chalmers assesses the ramifications of this announcement.
Professor Malcolm Chalmers is Deputy Director-General of RUSI and directs its growing portfolio of research into contemporary... read more
Andrew Futter and Bleddyn E Bowen
A cocktail of major events might have serious implications for the UK's nuclear deterrent.
Tags: RUSI Journal, Trident, UK, UK DefenceMaren Garberg Bredesen and Karsten Friis
Russia's strategy is increasingly focusing on its naval capabilities.
Tags: RUSI Journal, Russia, Maritime ForcesTrevor Taylor
A consistent feature of official UK positions after Brexit was enthusiasm for continued UK–Europe cooperation on defence and security matters. However, difficulties in the talks endanger both intergovernmental activities in this domain and the future of UK defence industrial capability.
Tags: Defence, Industries and Society, Brexit, Equipment and Acquisitions, UK, EuropeTrevor Taylor
In the first in a series of articles, we explore the UK’s current attempt to operate a government-wide direction in its approval of major procurement projects.
Tags: Defence, Industries and Society, Defence Spending, Equipment and Acquisitions, Defence Management, UK, UK Defence, EuropeKároly Gergely
Ethnic Hungarians in neighbouring states are still struggling with exercising their group rights, a century after Hungary was shorn of much of its territory.
Tags: EuropePeter Roberts
The UK’s review of security, defence, development and foreign policy, halted by the health emergency, is now restarting. But not from where it stopped, for both outputs and inputs need to be reconsidered.
Tags: Military Sciences, UK Integrated Review 2021, Defence Policy, UK, National SecurityWilliam James
Proportionality is at the heart of successful grand strategies.
Tags: RUSI Journal, Defence Policy, UK, Global Security Issues, UK DefenceRod Thornton and Marina Miron
Russia is expecting artificial intelligence to have strategic consequences in cyberspace.
Tags: Cyber, RUSI Journal, Russia, Defence Policy, Technology, EuropeRebecca Pincus
The Arctic is increasingly linked to North Atlantic security issues.
Tags: RUSI Journal, UK Integrated Review 2021, US Defence Policy, NATO, Americas, Defence Policy, International Institutions, Maritime Forces, EuropeIran's Nuclear Programme, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, UK Project on Nuclear Issues, Iran, Defence Policy, Trident, Global Security Issues, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, UK Defence, Middle East and North Africa
RUSI analysts look ahead at the issues affecting defence and security in 2015.
Aerospace, Global Security Issues, Intelligence, Organised Crime, Terrorism, UK DefencePeter Roberts, Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, critically analyses claims that Iran's naval deployment to the Atlantic is somehow threatening to the United States or...
Maritime ForcesThis event will explore the impact of the upcoming European elections on the UK, and what the results might mean for British politics following the invocation of Article 50.
Tags: Brexit, Germany, European Union, France, UK, EuropeA seminar addressing the latest security situation in Kosovo and the Western Balkans.
Tags: Military Sciences, Global Security Issues, EuropeThis conference explored how the UK and EU can maintain a long-standing defence and security relationship after Brexit.
Tags: Brexit, Defence Policy, UK, UK Defence, Europe
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