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The RUSI Journal is a leading journal on defence and security. First published in 1857, it brings together scholars, decision-makers and practitioners in a unique forum that combines academic rigour with policy relevance.

October 2018, Vol: 163 No: 4

Editor's Note: RUSI Journal, August/September 2018

RUSI Journal, 18 October 2018, No: 4

Emma De Angelis

Editor Dr Emma De Angelis introduces the August/September 2018 edition of the RUSI Journal.

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Obituary Professor Neville Brown

RUSI Journal, 18 October 2018, No: 4

Michael Clarke and Julian Lewis

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British Ambassador to the United Nations Karen Pierce participates in Security Council discussions following the use of chemical agents in Salisbury, April 2018. Courtesy of PA Images/Luiz Rampelotto

Salisbury, Novichok and International Law on the Use of Force

RUSI Journal, 17 October 2018, No: 4

Stephen Lewis

Can the alleged poisoning be considered an armed attack?

Tags: Russia, UK, Global Security Issues, UK Defence
President Vladimir Putin alongside the presidential envoy to Russia’s Siberian Federal District, the president of the Siberian Business Union Holding and board chairman of Rosneft, August 2018. Courtesy of PA Images/Alexel Druzhinin

Russia’s Hybrid State and President Putin’s Fourth-Term Foreign Policy

RUSI Journal, 17 October 2018, No: 4

Graeme P Herd

Russia’s hybrid state poses a problem for Western attempts to engage Moscow.

Tags: Russia
Russian warplanes taking off from the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, December 2016. Russian forces were engaged in operations in Syria. Courtesy of PA Images/Andrei Luzik

The Russian Military Commitment in Syria and the Eastern Mediterranean

RUSI Journal, 17 October 2018, No: 4

Rod Thornton

Russia is likely to stay in the region for the long term.

Tags: Russia, Syria
The Sea Hunter is an entirely new class of unmanned oceangoing vessel and is part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s work on anti-submarine warfare. Courtesy of US Navy/John F Williams

America First, Third Offset Second?

RUSI Journal, 17 October 2018, No: 4

Daniel Fiott

The new president prefers funding current capabilities over technological innovation.

Tags: United States, US Defence Policy, Defence Management
Test-fire of North Korea’s Hwasong-15 ballistic missile, November 2017. Pyongyang claims the missile can carry a nuclear warhead and reach the entire US mainland. Courtesy of KCNA/PA Images

North Korea’s Missile Programme and Supply-Side Controls: Lessons for Countering Illicit Procurement

RUSI Journal, 17 October 2018, No: 4

Daniel Salisbury

Pyongyang has proved adept at evading sanctions.

Tags: Aerospace, North Korea, Technology
EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini meets with then German Foreign Minister Frank Walter-Steinmeier

Informal Groups of States: A Growing Role in EU Foreign Policy After Brexit?

RUSI Journal, 17 October 2018, No: 4

Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi

Groups of states acting outside formal EU mechanisms may allow the UK to contribute to European foreign policy.

Tags: Brexit Briefings, European Union, UK
Graduation ceremony of the second battalion of the government army in Taiz, Yemen, March 2017. Courtesy of PA Images/Abdulnasser Alseddik

Rehabilitating the Yemeni Defence and Security Establishment: Then and Now

RUSI Journal, 17 October 2018, No: 4

Aldwin Wight and James Spencer

Its history provides important insights on the current situation in Yemen.

Tags: Military Personnel, Technology
A soldier from the Territorial Army London Regiment

A Certain Reserve: Strategic Thinking and Britain’s Army Reserve

RUSI Journal, 17 October 2018, No: 4

Jeremy Mooney and John Crackett

The purpose of the Army Reserve has changed substantially in the past century.

Tags: Armed Forces, UK
German U-boat U-14

Insight, Forecasts and Sometimes Getting It Wrong: A Comment on Three RUSI Journal Articles from 1920

RUSI Journal, 17 October 2018, No: 4

Trevor Taylor

A comment on three articles published in the Journal following the First World War.

Tags: Armed Forces, Land Forces, Maritime Forces
C R W Nevinson, Ypres After the First Bombardment, 1916. Courtesy of Tate Britain

Aftermath: Art in the Wake of World War One: An Exhibition Review

RUSI Journal, 17 October 2018, No: 4

Sarah Hudson

A review of Aftermath: Art in the Wake of World War One.

Tags: The Great War, Art, Culture and Literature, History

Book Review: Biosecurity in Putin’s Russia

RUSI Journal, 17 October 2018, No: 4

Ryan Henrici

Ryan Henrici reviews Biosecurity in Putin’s Russia, by Raymond A Zilinskas and Philippe Mauger

Tags: Russia, Technology

Book Review: Principled Spying: The Ethics of Secret Intelligence

RUSI Journal, 17 October 2018, No: 4

John Scarlett

John Scarlett reviews Principled Spying: The Ethics of Secret Intelligence, by David Omand and Mark Phythian

Tags: Intelligence, Law and Ethics

Book Review: Mutual Radicalization: How Groups and Nations Drive Each Other to Extremes

RUSI Journal, 17 October 2018, No: 4

Diana Clark Gill

Diana Clark Gill reviews Mutual Radicalisation: How Groups and Nations Drive Each Other to Extremes, by Fathali M Moghaddam

Tags: Tackling Extremism, Terrorism

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