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The Military Sciences group includes experts in the traditional Air, Land and Maritime domains as well as Cyber, Influence Operations and Space. Our aim is to contribute to the nuance of UK public, media and policy discussions on defence by combining research with practical experience and contextual awareness. As part of this work, Military Sciences staff engage with military, defence industrial and governmental stakeholders from the operational to the senior leadership level in the UK and overseas.
The cornerstone of the Military Sciences group’s work is the Martial Power Programme which forms a conceptual framework aimed at providing UK decision makers with a deeper evidence base to feed into defence policy.
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Peter 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, Defence Policy, UK, National Security
A wide ranging discussion in which Peter Roberts talks to Frank Hoffman about decisive battles, concepts of victory, strategic culture, divergence, societal risks, militaries as ubiquitous political tools, the 7th industrial revolution (augmentation), an offence/defence division of labour, and a glimpse at Hoffman's new 4 faces of future warfare.
Tags: Military Sciences
Peter Roberts and Admiral Sir Philip Jones talk about why it is people that represent the competitive edge in the Western Way of Warfare - and have done for centuries, and how technology is supporting but not necessarily dominant.
Tags: Military Sciences
Delivered by Lieutenant General (Ret’d) Ben Hodges, Distinguished Fellow, RUSI
Tags: Adversarial Studies, Military Sciences
Peter Roberts and David Richards discuss the ten commandments of the manoeuvrist approach to warfare, thinking of weapons as servants not principles, the enduring nature of challenge, and the British Way of Warfare as ‘The absence of mass’.
Tags: Military Sciences
Peter 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.
Military Sciences, Defence Policy, UK, National Security
Peter Roberts
NATO’s Secretary General recently outlined an inspiring vision of a revamped Alliance by the end of the decade – it will not be easy to achieve.
NATO, Military Sciences
Nick Reynolds and Sidharth Kaushal
Chinese military incursions at the border with India may signify Beijing’s desire for a permanent shift in the military status quo between the two powers.
Japan, India, Military Sciences
Sarah Martin and Nick Reynolds
Officials from Donald Trump’s administration have now announced that the US will formally withdraw in six months from the Open Skies Treaty. The viability of multilateral confidence- and security-building measures is called into question.
Aerospace, United States, US Defence Policy, Russia, Military Sciences, Defence Policy, Intelligence, Europe
Jack Watling
The use of martial language by politicians in managing the current pandemic obscures fundamental differences between waging war and managing a health crisis.
Civil–Military Relations, Coronavirus, Military Sciences, Defence Management, UK, National Security, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding
Elisabeth Braw
Reflections and analysis on the 2020 'Revamping Crisis Resilience and Security in the Post-Pandemic World' conference.
Other Publications, Military Sciences, Modern Deterrence, Resilience
Nick Reynolds
This Occasional Paper analyses the contemporary information domain and its consequences for the British Army.
Cyber, Occasional Papers, Military Sciences, UK, Information, Technology, UK Defence
Paul O'Neill
A report from the inaugural conference for the UK’s new Strategic Command, hosted by RUSI.
Armed Forces, Conference Reports, Military Sciences, UK, UK Defence
Peter Roberts and Sidharth Kaushal
Strategic goals can be refined through a better understanding of competitive advantage in great power conflict.
Occasional Papers, Military Sciences, History, Military Personnel, Resilience
Sidharth Kaushal and Alexandra Stickings
Conference Reports, Military Sciences, Defence Policy, Global Security Issues
At this launch event Nick Reynolds will explore RUSI's independent study examining the information operating environment.
Military Sciences
We mark the International Day of the UN Peacekeeper. We are joined by Brigadier-General Maureen O'Brien of the UN Disengagement Observer Force as we celebrate the contributions of women in...
United Nations, Military Sciences, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding
General Sir Gordon Messenger and Surevine founder and CEO Stuart Murdoch in conversation with Clifford Chance counsel Josh Fitzhugh.
Military Sciences, Modern Deterrence
This annual conference, jointly organised by the United Nations Association – UK, UNA-Westminster and RUSI, is the UK’s most authoritative public review of UN peacekeeping activities.
Military Sciences
This conference will seek to re-examine what the optimal survivability mix might look like in the late 2020s, 2030s, in light of current trends of both combat air systems design and emerging...
Air Power Conference 2016: Inspiration and Innovation, Military Sciences
A wide ranging discussion in which Peter Roberts talks to Frank Hoffman about decisive battles, concepts of victory, strategic culture, divergence, societal risks, militaries as ubiquitous political...
Tags: Military Sciences
Peter Roberts and Admiral Sir Philip Jones talk about why it is people that represent the competitive edge in the Western Way of Warfare - and have done for centuries, and how technology is...
Tags: Military Sciences
Delivered by Lieutenant General (Ret’d) Ben Hodges, Distinguished Fellow, RUSI
Tags: Adversarial Studies, Military Sciences
Peter Roberts and David Richards discuss the ten commandments of the manoeuvrist approach to warfare, thinking of weapons as servants not principles, the enduring nature of challenge, and the British...
Tags: Military Sciences
The UK’s Integrated Review Has Restarted: Are Key Questions and Assumptions Still Valid?
Western Way of War: Professor Frank Hoffman
Open Skies Clouded by Sham and Ambiguity