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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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Some capabilities are fundamental to military activities, but strategic capabilities tend to be valuable, rare, and inimitable. That means they tend to be human, not technical. HR guru Professor William Scott-Jackson talks to Peter Roberts about the research and science behind this, and what it means for military recruiting, training leaders, the problems with future employment models, and the...
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Sidharth Kaushal
This Occasional Paper examines how the Royal Navy can leverage the potential of its Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers in the context of a strategic environment characterised by persistent competition.
Tags: Military Sciences, UK, Maritime Forces
Sidharth Kaushal
The recent announcement that all US Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyers will carry hypersonic weapons for conventional prompt strike missions raises important questions regarding both the CONOPS guiding conventional prompt strike and the specific value of hypersonics for this mission set
Tags: Martial Power Programme, Military Sciences, Maritime Forces
Peter Roberts
The UK military is to receive an extra £4 billion a year over the next four years, the government has announced.
Tags: Military Sciences, UK Integrated Review 2020, Defence Spending, UK
Great powers are pressing ahead with hypersonic weapons, yet in adoption and adaptation there seems to be a missing foundational understanding of what the arrival of Mach 10 precision munitions means for warfare. In trying to get behind the hyperbole of hypersonics, Peter Roberts talked to Bryan Rosselli about speed, accuracy, range, manoeuvrability, and defense - plus what comes after. A...
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Peter Roberts
The UK military is to receive an extra £4 billion a year over the next four years, the government has announced.
Military Sciences, UK Integrated Review 2020, Defence Spending, UK
Jack Watling and Sidharth Kaushal
The effective use of precision strike assets by Azeri forces in the ongoing Nagorno-Karabakh conflict illustrates how the precision revolution has spread beyond great powers.
Military Sciences
Nick Reynolds
The debate about the future of the UK’s heavy armour has been reignited by the recent revelation that the British Army is considering retiring its main battle tanks in the Integrated Review. While changes are necessary, to abandon heavy armour would be a mistake.
Military Sciences, UK Integrated Review 2020, UK
Jack Watling
Although security operations are likely to continue as before, the coup should force the international community to ask hard and probing questions about the approach taken in trying to secure the Sahel.
Military Sciences, United Nations, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding, Africa
Elisabeth Braw
Washington is offering $10 million for tips that would help authorities prevent possible cyber interference in the November elections. Unusual, but not necessarily unworkable.
Military Sciences, United States, Law and Ethics, National Security, Resilience
Sidharth Kaushal
This Occasional Paper examines how the Royal Navy can leverage the potential of its Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers in the context of a strategic environment characterised by persistent...
Military Sciences, Occasional Papers, UK, Maritime Forces
Jack Watling and Nick Reynolds
In a world of powerful states, countries are likely to partner their armed forces to achieve common aims. Efforts to build capacity in partner forces will play a crucial role.
Military Sciences, Whitehall Papers, Defence Policy, Military Personnel
Justin Bronk
This Whitehall Report examines Russian and Chinese combat air trends, and looks specifically at fast jets and their weapons systems and capabilities.
Aerospace, China, Military Sciences, Whitehall Reports, Russia
Jack Watling
A report from RUSI's virtual conference on chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons.
Military Sciences, Conference Reports, UK, Global Security Issues
Edited by Jack Watling
Europe's medium powers face unavoidable tradeoffs when determining the future shape of their militaries.
Aerospace, Military Sciences, UK Integrated Review 2020, Whitehall Papers, Defence Management, Defence Policy, Land Forces, Maritime Forces, Military Personnel, Europe
At this event chaired by Sir Michael Fallon, NATO Assistant Secretary-General Giedrimas Jeglinskas, Isar Aerospace Co-Founder and CEO Daniel Metzler and Dr Staffan Truvé, Co-Founder and CTO, Recorded...
Military Sciences, Modern Deterrence
Online payments are accelerating, not least as a result of coronavirus-related lifestyle changes.
Military Sciences, Modern Deterrence
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...
Military Sciences, United Nations, 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
Some capabilities are fundamental to military activities, but strategic capabilities tend to be valuable, rare, and inimitable. That means they tend to be human, not technical. HR guru Professor...
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Great powers are pressing ahead with hypersonic weapons, yet in adoption and adaptation there seems to be a missing foundational understanding of what the arrival of Mach 10 precision munitions means...
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Alice Billon-Galland explains to Peter Roberts what a forward-looking reflective exercise is for NATO and what this issues are between the Atlantic Alliance and the EU. They get into why patchwork...
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Given the discussion of 'sunset' capabilities and the growing feeling in Brussels that the UK has a credibility problem inside NATO, Peter talks to Mungo Melvin (military historian and former soldier...
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Episode Five: New Technologies, Old Methods in Terrorism Financing
Episode Six: FATF’s Strategic Review
Saudi Arabia and International Summitry: Hard Try, and Harder Times Ahead