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Emergency services responding to 2005 London bombi7/7 Inquest: Be Careful of Demanding the Impossible The current press coverage of the 7/7 Inquest has undermined real progress made by the emergency services since July 2005. We must guard against expecting the impossible of our emergency services and concentrate instead on how they can be maintained amid impending cuts.
2 Nov 2010
Anti-satellite missile launchNATO’s New Strategic Concept and Missile Defence As the Lisbon Summit approaches, momentum is gathering on the adoption of NATO’s new Strategic Concept and the prospect of making missile defence one of its core missions. Whilst the United States and NATO are close to reaching a consensus on missile defence, Russia and Turkey’s concerns with hosting a radar site still need to be addressed more fully.
2 Nov 2010
Climate Change and SecurityClimate Change and Security News - October 2010 A round-up of articles relating to climate change and security in the world media for September 2010
9 Nov 2010
British soldiers in SanginStrategic Defence and Security Review: Preliminary Assessment As the government announced the Strategic Defence and Security Review, RUSI experts offer their initial analysis and explain the Review's implications.
27 Oct 2010
MoD PlaqueThe Strategic Defence and Security Review: RUSI experts comment As the defence and international security comes to terms with the UK's Defence Review, RUSI.org outlines the initial assessments of RUSI experts.
20 Oct 2010
UK and US troops in IraqHas the Defence Review secured Britain's place in the world? For all the arguing and the leaks that have surrounded this Defence Review, there is some clear grand strategy behind it. The Government has decided that Britain will still strive to remain a global player.
20 Oct 2010
SDSR: What Next for Britain? The issues as to whether the Strategic Defence and Security Review was Treasury or policy led and whether it was conducted in too short a time for proper discussion, and consideration are now in the past. It is the implications and the unanswered questions that matter.
20 Oct 2010
Cyber SecurityCyber Priorities After SDSR 2010 The UK government's declared focus on cyber-security should focus on three priorities: building capability, nurturing national and international partnerships, and building an effective network defence.
19 Oct 2010
Cyber SecurityTackling the Cyber Threat The latest National Security Strategy has placed tackling the cyber threat at the top of the government's security agenda - alongside threats from terrorism, war and accidental or natural disaster. In light of the extent of the cyber threat, the Government may not have allocated adequate resources to deal with it.
19 Oct 2010
Intelligence Oversight in the UKPreliminary RUSI Briefing: The National Security Strategy 2010 Now in its third year, the National Security Strategy is even more important as it is a precursor to tomorrow's Strategic Defence and Security Review. The Strategy is an honest attempt to think afresh about British security, with a focus on terrorism and cyber-security. However, it ignores the difficult real-world decisions that must be made to create an effective strategic review.
18 Oct 2010
National Security 2The National Security Strategy and the Strategic Defence and Security Review Are the strategic threats and opportunities adequately recognised in the Strategic Defence and Security Review?
20 Oct 2010
MoD PlaqueKey defence questions to be addressed in the SDSR Single service interests and the funding of the nuclear deterrent have dominated media coverage of the build-up to the Strategic Defence & Security Review (SDSR), whose publication is now expected on 19 October 2010. It can be anticipated that cuts in force structure and abandoned defence equipment projects will draw the headlines and that assessments will be made of the relative pain inflicted on the army, navy and air force.
15 Oct 2010
Afghan National Army TrainingHow Should the EU Combat an Evolving Terrorist Threat? The thwarted ‘Mumbai-style’ attacks at key European cities underline the need for even greater European counter-terrorism co-operation.
21 Oct 2010
Alternative Energy military solar panelsNATO Cannot Sustain its Current Fuel Addiction The closure of the Afghan/Pakistan border earlier this week and consequent targeting of NATO fuel supplies has highlighted a critical vulnerability for the International Security Assistance Forces: Fuel. But what can be done to overcome ISAF's Achilles heel?
8 Oct 2010
British ArmyStrategy not Emotion: Regaining Confidence in the Strategic Defence and Security Review There is now a consensus that the Strategic Defence and Security Review is being conducted too fast and without due consideration to strategy. The UK’s Defence and Security cannot be left to one ministry; it is time we empower a Cabinet-level leader to enable defence and security reform across government.
5 Oct 2010
Afghan National Army US ArmyThe Calculus of Risk in Afghanistan Stephen Biddle, Roger Hertog Senior Fellow for Defense Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, discusses whether the costs of the war in Afghanistan outweigh the benefits for the West and highlights that maybe the situation in Pakistan is a much greater security risk.
11 Oct 2010
After the War on Terror 2The Resurgent Terrorist Threat On 27 September 2010, the international media reported of a planned co-ordinated attack in France, Germany and the UK. Dr Tobias Feakin, RUSI Director of National Security and Resilience gives his assessment
30 Sep 2010
Liam Fox MPLiam Fox letter will force Government to face up to defence decisions: Commentary by Malcolm Chalmers The leaked letter from Defence Secretary Liam Fox to Prime Minister David Cameron has outlined in detail some of the cuts now being considered in Britain’s armed forces – sharp reductions in the frigate fleet, the ‘deletion’ of the Royal Navy’s amphibious capability, and the scrapping of the new Nimrod MR4 maritime patrol aircraft (the first of which entered service, at great expense, only this year).
30 Sep 2010
Army in Northern IrelandImpact of New Terrorist Threat Levels for the Irish Dissidents UK Intelligence Officers have for the first time published threat levels for Irish related terrorism, using the same system as for International Terrorism. But what is the likely impact of the move?
29 Sep 2010
US DoDEquality in the US Military: Time to End Don't Ask, Don't Tell The policy of institutionalised discrimination against gay and lesbian US service personnel is unjust and detrimental to military effectiveness. It is time for US policymakers to end this policy of 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' and join the norms of other Western militaries.
28 Sep 2010
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