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Contemporary football provides a reminder of the multinational nature of British society and its historical war effort.
Tags: RUSI Journal, The Great War, UK, HistoryAndrew Cainey
The UK’s application to join a free trade arrangement based around the Pacific Rim may result in a fundamental reorientation of the country’s global posture.
Tags: UK Integrated Review 2021, UK, PacificMalcolm Chalmers
The G7 summit this year is a key opportunity to reassert the importance of Western unity in international affairs. Here is an outline of how this could be done.
Tags: UKJulian King and John Scarlett
The agreement governing future relations between the UK and the EU has addressed only some of the serious questions about future security cooperation. Many challenges lie ahead, and goodwill, as well as attention to detail will be required by both sides.
Tags: UK Integrated Review 2021, Brexit, UK, National Security, EuropeDavid Hutt
Having failed to beat the EU to the Indo-Pacific, and with US–EU relations less than ideal ahead of Joe Biden’s inauguration this month, the UK could carve out a niche in Asia by aligning with US policy.
Tags: UK Integrated Review 2021, United States, UKJoyce Anelay
The House of Lords International Relations and Defence Committee, which I chair, has just published its report, ‘The UK and Afghanistan’. Here are its main findings.
Tags: UK Integrated Review 2021, Afghanistan, UKGeorgina Holmes
The UK can play an important role in supporting the development of best practice in peacekeeping throughout Africa.
Tags: RUSI Journal, UK Integrated Review 2021, UK, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding, AfricaAnjuli Shere and Miranda Melcher
The power and independence of the Information Commissioner’s Office appear to have been overstated. Downing Street has built-in oversight of funds and coronavirus data is not being protected.
Tags: RUSI Newsbrief, Coronavirus, UK, InformationJack Watling and Nick Reynolds
The UK has two options for modernising its armour: developing a Challenger 3 or procuring Leopard 2. The latter is an assured capability that will likely prove cheaper over the life of the programme. The former is risky but offers the UK an opportunity to develop valuable intellectual property.
Tags: Military Sciences, RUSI Newsbrief, Equipment and Acquisitions, UKDavid Davis, Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, discussed security co-operation post-Brexit.
Tags: UK, EuropeAn address by Her Excellency Mrs Erna Solberg, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Norway.
Tags: NATO, International Institutions, EuropeThe conference examined the opportunities and challenges involved in human-machine combat teaming for naval warfare in the future.
Tags: Military Sciences, UK, Maritime Forces, Technology
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