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Editor's Note: RUSI Journal, April/May 2018
RUSI Journal, June 2018Emma De Angelis
Editor Dr Emma De Angelis introduces the April/May 2018 edition of the RUSI Journal.

Escalation and Nuclear Weapons in Russia’s Military Strategy
RUSI Journal, May 2018Katarzyna Zysk
The development of Russia's nuclear weapons programme suggests that the country may be prepared to use them to offset its conventional weaknesses.
Defence Policy, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy
Increasing Resilience in Space-Based Capabilities for the UK Through Improved Space Situational Awareness and Regulatory Control
RUSI Journal, May 2018Ian Annett and Roddy Dennis
Improved Space Situational Awareness and a regulatory framework are needed.
Aerospace, Technology
An Assessment of Supply-Chain Cyber Resilience for the International Space Station
RUSI Journal, May 2018Noel Hannan
It is important to understand how International Space Station is vulnerable to cyber attacks.
Aerospace, Cyber
Positional Warfare A Paradigm for Understanding Twenty-First-Century Conflict
RUSI Journal, June 2018Siddarth Kaushal
Contemporary war is not characterised by radical change, but to a return to the eighteenth-century paradigm of positional warfare.
Global Security Issues
Marauding Terrorist Firearms’ Attacks: A Practitioner’s View of the UK’s Emergency Service Initial Response Arrangements to Deal with an Active Shooter
RUSI Journal, June 2018Dave Graham
Improvement is needed to the UK’s emergency services’s plans to respond to marauding terrorist firearms’ attacks.
Terrorism
Why is there no Joint European Remotely Piloted Aircraft System Project under the Common Security and Defence Policy?
RUSI Journal, June 2018Christian Küsters
The European Common Security and Defence Policy cannot function with a strong European defence industrial base.
Defence Policy
Central Asian Gas Exports Dependency: Swapping Russian Patronage for Chinese
RUSI Journal, May 2018Farkhod Aminjonov
Central Asian gas exporters may have swapped dependency on one client for another with trade arrangements with Russia and China.

A Commentary on H C Colles’s ‘The Red Cross in the War.’
RUSI Journal, June 2018Tom Plant
A Commentary on H C Colles’s ‘The Red Cross in the War.’
The Great War
The Red Cross in the War
RUSI Journal, June 2018H. C. Colles
This 1916 article explains the role of the Red Cross.
The Great War
Book Review: The Peacebuilding Puzzle: Political Order in Post-Conflict States
RUSI Journal, May 2018Eleanor Gordon
Eleanor Gordon reviews The Peacebuilding Puzzle: Political Order in Post-Conflict States, by Naazneen H Barma.
Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding
Book Review: Beyond Snowden: Privacy, Mass Surveillance, and the Struggle to Reform the NSA
RUSI Journal, March 2018Huw Dylan
Huw Dylan reviews Beyond Snowden: Privacy, Mass Surveillance, and the Struggle to Reform the NSA, by Timothy H Edgar.
Intelligence, Law and Ethics
Book Review: True to Their Salt: Indigenous Personnel in Western Armed Forces
RUSI Journal, May 2018Richard S Fogarty
Richard S Fogarty reviewsTrue to Their Salt: Indigenous Personnel in Western Armed Forces, by Rob Johnson.
Military Personnel
Book Review: Soldiers of Empire: Indian and British Armies in World War II
RUSI Journal, May 2018Sneha Reddy
Sneha Reddy reviews Soldiers of Empire: Indian and British Armies in World War II, by Tarak Barkawi.
History, Military Personnel
Book Review: The Bramall Papers: Reflections on War and Peace
RUSI Journal, May 2018John Kiszely
John Kiszely reviews The Bramall Papers: Reflections on War and Peace, by Field Marshal Lord Bramall.
Global Strategy and Commitments, Defence Policy, History, UK Defence
Book Review: Rebooting Clausewitz: ‘On War’ in the Twenty-First Century
RUSI Journal, May 2018John Stone
John Stone reviews Rebooting Clausewitz: ‘On War’ in the Twenty-First Century, by Christopher Coker.
Defence Policy, History
Global Allies: Comparing US Alliances in the 21st Century
RUSI Journal, June 2018Lavina Lee
Lavina Lee reviews Global Allies: Comparing US Alliances in the 21st Century, by Michael Wesley.
Global Security Issues
Book Review: Counterinsurgency Wars and the Anglo-American Alliance: The Special Relationship on the Rocks
RUSI Journal, June 2018Frank Ledwidge
Frank Ledwidge reviews Counterinsurgency Wars and the Anglo-American Alliance: The Special Relationship on the Rocks, by Andrew Mumford
Counterinsurgency, History
Diversity in the UK's Intelligence Agencies
Financing Right-Wing Extremism and Terrorism
New UK Government Initiative to Support High-Risk, High-Reward Military Science Needs Refinement