Elisabeth Braw is a Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where she focuses on deterrence against emerging forms... read more
Andrew 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, Pacific
Malcolm 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: UK
Tony Comer
Enigma was broken at Bletchley Park because of the Polish decision in 1939 to share all they knew. That led to a radical transformation of British signals intelligence.
Tags: UK, History, Intelligence
David 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, UK
Joyce 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, UK
Tim Willasey-Wilsey
It has become commonplace to suggest that British people today would not accept the levels of casualties suffered on the Western Front during the First World War. In Afghanistan the loss of 454 soldiers caused deep public unease. Yet already the UK has lost over 80,000 people to coronavirus and people have become accustomed to the tragic daily toll.
Tags: The Great War, Coronavirus, UK
Ben Freeman and Tarun Krishnakumar
As it seeks to develop a transparency-based registration framework to counter foreign influence activities, the UK can learn from the rich experience of the US and the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
Tags: United States, RUSI Newsbrief, UK, Domestic Security, Law and Ethics
James Stythe
James Stythe reviews British Justice, War Crimes and Human Rights Violations: The Age of Accountability, by Susan L Kemp.
Tags: RUSI Journal, UK, Law and Ethics, Military Personnel, Europe
Russell Huang and Grant W Turner
The UK has created one of the best tools for mitigating Huawei’s risks. Whether or not the UK Huawei ban stands, its Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre should receive increased funding and support to protect and enhance its interests at home and abroad.
Tags: Cyber, RUSI Newsbrief, UK, Information, National Security, Technology
In this webinar, Kevin Brown will discuss the changing nature of cyber attacks: the perpetrators, the forms of aggression, the collaboration between different groups of perpetrators. Brown is...
Tags: Modern Deterrence
At this briefing, Dr Ravich will discuss the Cyberspace Solarium Commission’s work and findings, as well as her own thoughts on how the US and other advanced economies can better protect themselves...
Tags: Modern Deterrence
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick delivered the inaugural RUSI Annual Security Lecture.
Tags: Cyber, Organised Crime and Policing, UK, Technology, Europe
Fighting for the soul of Western militaries
New UK Government Initiative to Support High-Risk, High-Reward Military Science Needs Refinement
New Zealand's Indo-Pacific Recalibration