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RUSI is the podium of choice for world leaders and senior policymakers, and is ideally placed to attract high-quality speakers and participants at its events. These vary in size and format from set-piece lectures to conferences and seminars.

Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories and the Hunt for Putin’s Agents
10 March 2021, 16:00In 2010, a group of Russian deep cover ‘sleeper agents’ were arrested in the US. It was the culmination of a decade-long investigation, and...

We Are Bellingcat: An Intelligence Agency for the People
17 March 2021, 16:00Bellingcat has redefined the way we think about news, politics, and the digital future. Its founder tells the story of how he and his team...

Future War and the Defence of Europe
01 April 2021, 14:00Europeans should be under no illusion: unless they do far more for their own defence, and do this very differently, all that they now take...
Combat Air Power 2021: Competing Visions for the Future
24 March 2021, 9:30Each of the three efforts is aiming to eventually field a family of systems which will work together to deliver future air power effects. However, exactly what form this family of systems will take...
Precision Strike in 21st Century Multidomain Operations
13 May 2021, 12:00The ‘democratisation’ of access to long-range precision strike assets once thought to be components of an exclusively Western revolution in military affairs will have important ramifications for the...
Behind the Enigma: The Authorised History of GCHQ, Britain's Secret Cyber-Intelligence Agency
14 December 2020, 16:00For a hundred years, GCHQ has been at the forefront of innovation in national security and British secret statecraft. Famed for its codebreaking achievements during the Second World War, and essential to the Allied victory, GCHQ also held a critical...
How Can We Realise The Anti-Financial Crime Potential of Technology?
14 December 2020, 16:00This is the first one in a series of three webinars convened based on Financial Crime 2.0, a two-year programme on financial crime and new technology funded by EY, Refinitiv and (during its first year) Lloyds Banking Group. The following webinars in...
Ben Wallace on UK Defence Reform
11 December 2020, 10:00The announcement in the House of Commons on 19 November by Prime Minister Boris Johnson of a multi-year funding settlement for the Ministry of Defence marks the first outcome from the Integrated Review of the UK’s foreign, defence, development and...
MI9: A History of the Secret Service for Escape and Evasion in World War Two
09 December 2020, 16:00When Allied fighters were trapped behind enemy lines, one branch of military intelligence helped them escape: MI9. The organisation set up clandestine routes which traversed Nazi-occupied Europe, enabling soldiers and airmen to make their way home....
Community Engagement in Fragile and Conflict Affected States: Knowledge Transfer and Lesson Learning between the Gendarmerie and the Military
09 December 2020, 15:00This event was hosted by Keith Ditcham, Senior Research Fellow and Acting Director, RUSI and Colonel Giuseppe de Magistris, NSPCOE Director; it was chaired by Dr Georgina Sinclair, Associate Fellow, RUSI and Dr Imogen Parsons, Senior Research Fellow...
Twenty-Five Years after Bosnia: The Corps in Contemporary Security
09 December 2020, 14:00The Allied Rapid Reaction Corps provided the framework headquarters for the international intervention in Bosnia under the command of then General Michael Walker. Twenty-five years later the ARRC has taken up its role as the first NATO War...
Have I got Nukes for You: The Online UK PONI Christmas Quiz and Networking Event
08 December 2020, 15:00Given the success of our previous UK PONI Christmas quiz, we’re back for a fifth year! Get ready to pull on those Christmas jumpers and join other UK PONI members for an evening of friendly competition and quiz fun.We also hosted an online careers...
Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
08 December 2020, 14:30RUSI’s Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies is delighted to welcome the return of Tom Burgis for a discussion of his latest book, ‘Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World’, hosted by Alexandra Wrage, founder and president of...
The Making of the Salafi-Jihadi Visual Presence – An Evidence-Based Approach
08 December 2020, 14:00The fourth session presented reflections on adopting an evidence-based approach and explore new technological opportunities available by adopting an increasingly evidence-based approach and stronger data culture in the study of Salafi-Jihadi groups...
Pakistan’s Foreign Policy Outlook: Navigating a New Era of Great Power Competition
04 December 2020, 13:00Pakistan has long been an important partner for the West, first during the Cold War and then in its campaign in Afghanistan. However, the relationship has often been an uncomfortable one in recent years, given Pakistan’s growing closeness to...
Debate: This House would abolish the Combined Joint Expeditionary Force
01 December 2020, 15:00The Lancaster House treaties were signed in 2010: bilateral agreements between France and the UK to increase interoperability for defence and security cooperation. Upon signing, both governments agreed on the creation of a Combined Joint...
James Brokenshire on the Evolving Threat Posed by Terrorism in the UK
26 November 2020, 16:00Mr Brokenshire explored the challenges and opportunities the Government faces in responding to self-initiated terrorists, with a particular focus on right-wing terrorism.The full video is available to RUSI members. Please login and return to this...
Rising Global Violence – Where, When, Why?
25 November 2020, 14:00Around the globe violence is on the rise. Fifty years of bipolar antagonism gave way to 20 years of the American Moment. Now that relative geopolitical certainty is fading as other states challenge Western hegemony. With a growing risk of armed...
CTF Online Symposium No. 5: Financing Right-Wing Extremism and Terrorism
24 November 2020, 14:00In this webinar, Bethan Johnson will analyse trends in the financial activities of right-wing extremists and terrorists around the world. Considering the habits of both terrorist groups and ‘lone wolf’ terrorists, she will examine the fundraising...
How Spies Think: 10 Lessons in Intelligence
17 November 2020, 16:15Members can watch the event by logging in and returning to this page. Intelligence officers discern the truth. They gather information - often contradictory or incomplete - and, with it, they build the most accurate possible image of the world. With...
Fighting for the soul of Western militaries
New Zealand's Indo-Pacific Recalibration
Dependent Deterrent? US Support for the UK’s New Nuclear Warhead