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The Politics behind the Pentagon's Boeing-EADS Decision
Commentary, 2 March 2011
The Pentagon's decision to award a $35 billion tanker contract to Boeing instead of Europe's EADS caused a stir among investors and politicans on both sides of the Atlantic. Professor Trevor Taylor, RUSI Professorial Fellow in Defence Management, analyses the context and assesses the possible implications of the move.
Tags: Aerospace, Americas, Defence Management, Defence Policy, Europe
Cyber-attacks on the stock exchange: Threat, motivation and response
Commentary, 3 February 2011
Increased media speculation about the possibility of a cyber-attack on the London or New York stock exchanges has ignored the nature of the threat, which is likely to seek to cause disruption rather than make money, and the counter-measures that can hinder a catastrophic attack
Tags: Americas, Domestic Security, Information, Technology, Europe
The Wikileaks Cables: Damaging more than reputations?
Commentary, 12 January 2011
The damage to US and allied interests lies less in the embarrassment the leaked cables may have caused and more in the real intelligence they have provided to well-organised and sophisticated international terrorist groups.
Tags: Americas, Technology, Terrorism, Europe
2011: The Year Ahead
Commentary, 15 December 2010
Europe defeated, Beijing defiant: Can we expect anything new in 2011?
Tags: Americas, Defence Management, Global Security Issues, International Institutions, Terrorism, Europe, Pacific, Central and South Asia, Middle East and North Africa
A 21st Century NATO: Obama’s Lisbon Agenda
Commentary, 19 November 2010
This NATO Summit is a key opportunity for Obama to define a new agenda that will reset America's relationship with both Europe and the transatlantic community.
Tags: Americas, International Institutions, Europe
Reforming NATO at the Lisbon Summit
Commentary, 19 November 2010
The NATO Lisbon Summit is heaped with expectation, but it is unlikely to deliver radical reforms. Although escalating tensions in Afghanistan and rapprochement with Russia is high on the agenda, ‘Getting NATO’s house in Order’ would be the greatest headline for this summit.
Tags: Americas, International Institutions, EuropePages
National Crises and the Utility of Naval Power: The Haiti Case Study
Commentary, 16 February 2010With the recent publication of a Ministry of Defence (MoD) Green Paper and an upcoming Strategic Defence Review (SDR), the debate over future UK defence reform has been fierce. The international response to the Haitian disaster has proven to be a case study in how important high-end naval assets can be to a wide range of UK national interests.
Americas, Maritime Forces, UK Defence, Europe
What Will Success Look Like in Operation Moshtarak?
Commentary, 16 February 2010Operation Moshtarak is the most important campaign in Afghanistan since the invasion in 2001. Its success, however, will not be measured in military terms but in terms of public opinion, both in Helmand and the rest of Afghanistan and in the Coalition's domestic electorate.
Americas, International Institutions, Land Forces, Europe, Central and South Asia
The US Administration’s new Missile Defence plans
Commentary, 16 February 2010The Obama Administration has outlined a refocusing of the United States missile defence plans, revising the approach previously taken by the Bush White House. Central to the plan is the deployment of more mobile systems that could assuage the once sceptical Russians.
Aerospace, Americas, Defence Policy, Technology, Europe
Droning on: the American bolt from the blue
Commentary, 8 February 2010The latest Quadrennial Defense Review promises to increase the numbers, sophistication and use of unmanned aerial vehicles, known as drones. Their use has rendered the boundaries of the theatres of war more fluid, requiring the rapid integration of this weapon to be piloted more carefully than ever before.
Aerospace, Americas, Defence Policy
Bigger changes are on the way for the US military
Commentary, 2 February 2010The latest Quadrennial Defense Review, presented by the US Department of Defense, outlines a five-year programme until 2015 that sees the US playing a 'global role' in 'a complex environment'. It could pave the way for big changes as it accomodates itself to adjusting military capability so as to be able to do more with its allies.
Americas, Defence Management, Defence Policy
From Japan: A View of ‘Global Britain’ and the UK Integrated Review
The Threat From Far-Right Extremist Violence is Rising – How Can P/CVE Education Activities Be Part of the Strategy to Counter it?
Season Two: Holding Up a Mirror