Commentary

Factors Contributing to the Trident Decision 2 Aug 2006
UK Government Advice on Preparing for Emergencies The government’s terror advice comes as a sobering thought to those of us who live ‘just-in-time’ lives. The daily activities of a typical family are complex and require split second timing and it is not uncommon that every member of a household are in different towns for large parts of the day. The slight delay of a train or a traffic jam can have severe knock-on effects resulting in panic phone calls to partners, schools and childminders. Just imagine what would happen if you couldn't make those calls because the phone networks had been commandeered to deal with a large scale emergency, or that you had been quarantined awaiting decontamination and was unable to contact anyone.
18 May 2006
Network of Terror Within days of the London terror attacks, we have heard a great deal about how terrorism in the UK has entered a new era.
18 May 2006
Command and Control HSR ConferenceThe Risks Down Under LONDON -- As one of the vast army of people who commutes to central London daily, I drove to my local train station last Friday. To my slight surprise, the car park was a lot less full than usual. I stopped to buy a newspaper and a coffee but spent the 45-minute trip wondering why it never occurred to me not to make my normal journey the day after the London Tube bombings. Others clearly felt differently. I'm a physicist and my technical background is blast injury so I'm probably more informed than most about the horrific injuries sustained by the people on those three packed underground trains and the lone bus on July 7. Although the bombs were 10 times smaller than those used last year in Madrid, or even in most suicide bombings in Israel, their impact was nonetheless devastating.
18 May 2006
Gordon BrownChancellor's speech signals good news for the security industry The reason is simple: the security market is spread across every Government department, every part of the critical national infrastructure, every first-responder community, every private business and every individual.
18 May 2006
Chancellor outlines his vision to safeguard Britain Reinforcing the need to introduce identity cards, the use of the Internet in propagating extremism and the need to counter financial support for terrorism were some of the key points of a speech delivered by Chancellor Gordon Brown at the Royal United Services Institute today.
18 May 2006
Transatlantic Briefing No. 3-06 The Long and Short of the QDR’s ‘Long War’
15 Feb 2006
Transatlantic Briefing No. 2-06 The Right Direction: Britain and Canada Step Up the Challenge, the Dutch Dither
30 Jan 2006
Transatlantic Briefing No. 1-06 Northern Neocons or Business as Usual? Canada’s Conservative Turn and Transatlantic Relations
24 Jan 2006
Power Growth in Naval Surface Combatants Installed power on naval surface combatants has steadily grown over the past few decades. The principal reasons for this are two fold: ships have got larger and faster, and ships have more power demanding mission-systems. This paper examines the technical drivers behind the trends.
18 Oct 2005
Gaza wallGaza: Lessons of Sinai The Gaza Disengagement Plan has already achieved a remarkable result: re-injecting a sense of progress and anticipation into the Palestine-Israel peace process. However, this hubris is itself the enemy of clarity.
15 Aug 2005
Saudia Arabia After King Fahd: Initial analysis 2 Aug 2005
A Labour Party View of UK Defence Policy In advance of the expected General Election in May, the Rt Hon Geoffrey Hoon MP, Secretary of State for Defence, outlined his party's policy of defence.
18 Mar 2010
Election Brief: Ballistic Missile Defence and the UK There is an outstanding invitation from President George W. Bush Jr. to the United Kingdom, and other allies, to join the United States in a Global Ballistic Missile System. So far, Tony Blair has made no response, or at least, if he has, the nature of the response has not been made public. Many believe that, if there has been a response, it is along the lines of: "Ask me again after the election." There is, however, a widespread belief that, at official level, discussions about how any deal might be done have been going on between the UK and the US for many months. Last Autumn, there was a flurry of press speculation, soon dampened down, that officials had indeed agreed a deal to place interceptor missiles in the UK.
5 Apr 2005
A Conservative Party View of UK Defence Policy In advance of the General Election in May 2005, The Hon. Nicholas Soames MP, Conservative Party Shadow Secretary of State for Defence, outlined his party's policies on defence.
18 Mar 2010
Power Growth in Naval Surface Combatants Installed power on naval surface combatants has steadily grown over the past few decades. The principal reasons for this are two fold: ships have got larger and faster, and ships have more power demanding mission-systems.
11 Apr 2005
A Liberal Democrat View of UK Defence Policy Ahead of the election Paul Keetch outlines the Liberal Democrat policies on defence
18 Mar 2010
Review: Globalised Islam Olivier Roy, one of the world’s great experts on Islamism and the Middle East, brings fascinating news from the front in the battle of civilisations.
13 Dec 2004
The Road to Jerusalem Arafat is dead. Across the Arab world, the news was greeted with an outpouring of shock and mourning that dwarfed anything we have seen in the West since the generation of WWII leaders died.
7 Dec 2004
Review: The War for Muslim Minds The book addresses Muslims first and foremost, and particularly European Muslims. For it is through them that Kepel sees the only hope of ending this clash of civilisations.
13 Dec 2004
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