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RUSI Journal
April 2018 , No: 2

Editor's Note: RUSI Journal, April/May 2018

RUSI Journal, June 2018

Emma De Angelis

Editor Dr Emma De Angelis introduces the April/May 2018 edition of the RUSI Journal.

Russian Navy's K-407 Novomoskovsk nuclear ballistic missile submarine

Escalation and Nuclear Weapons in Russia’s Military Strategy

RUSI Journal, May 2018

Katarzyna 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
The ground-based electro-optical deep-space surveillance telescope located in New Mexico, March 2017. Courtesy of US Air Force/Dennis Hoffman

Increasing Resilience in Space-Based Capabilities for the UK Through Improved Space Situational Awareness and Regulatory Control

RUSI Journal, May 2018

Ian Annett and Roddy Dennis

Improved Space Situational Awareness and a regulatory framework are needed.

Aerospace, Technology
The International Space Station viewed from STS-133. Courtesy of NASA Images/Dominic Lipinski

An Assessment of Supply-Chain Cyber Resilience for the International Space Station

RUSI Journal, May 2018

Noel Hannan

It is important to understand how International Space Station is vulnerable to cyber attacks.

Aerospace, Cyber
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin addresses Russian forces at the Russian Hmeimim air base in Syria, December 2017. Courtesy of PA Images/Mikhail Klimentyev

Positional Warfare A Paradigm for Understanding Twenty-First-Century Conflict

RUSI Journal, June 2018

Siddarth Kaushal

Contemporary war is not characterised by radical change, but to a return to the eighteenth-century paradigm of positional warfare.

Global Security Issues
Armed police following the terror attack at London Bridge in the British capital, June 2017. Courtesy of PA Images/Dominic Lipinski

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 2018

Dave Graham

Improvement is needed to the UK’s emergency services’s plans to respond to marauding terrorist firearms’ attacks.

Terrorism
A demonstrator of the nEUROn unmanned combat air vehicle at the Paris Air Show, 2013. Courtesy of Aerolegende/Wikimedia.

Why is there no Joint European Remotely Piloted Aircraft System Project under the Common Security and Defence Policy?

RUSI Journal, June 2018

Christian Küsters

The European Common Security and Defence Policy cannot function with a strong European defence industrial base.

Defence Policy
The Cheleken oil and gas fields in the Caspian Sea, Turkmenistan. Courtesy of www.dragonoil.com

Central Asian Gas Exports Dependency: Swapping Russian Patronage for Chinese

RUSI Journal, May 2018

Farkhod Aminjonov

Central Asian gas exporters may have swapped dependency on one client for another with trade arrangements with Russia and China.

A horse-drawn ambulance is unloaded as the Red Cross tend to wounded British soldiers during World War One, France. Courtesy of PA Images.

A Commentary on H C Colles’s ‘The Red Cross in the War.’

RUSI Journal, June 2018

Tom 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 2018

H. 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 2018

Eleanor 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 2018

Huw 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 2018

Richard 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 2018

Sneha 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 2018

John 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 2018

John 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 2018

Lavina 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 2018

Frank Ledwidge

Frank Ledwidge reviews Counterinsurgency Wars and the Anglo-American Alliance: The Special Relationship on the Rocks, by Andrew Mumford

Counterinsurgency, History