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RUSI is the podium of choice for world leaders and senior policymakers, and is ideally placed to attract high-quality speakers and participants at its events. These vary in size and format from set-piece lectures to conferences and seminars.

UK Defence and Security Policy: The Labour Party’s Vision
26 February 2021, 11:00With the Government’s long-awaited Integrated Review expected to be published shortly and a new funding settlement for the MoD announced...

Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories and the Hunt for Putin’s Agents
10 March 2021, 16:00In 2010, a group of Russian deep cover ‘sleeper agents’ were arrested in the US. It was the culmination of a decade-long investigation, and...

Future War and the Defence of Europe
01 April 2021, 14:00Europeans should be under no illusion: unless they do far more for their own defence, and do this very differently, all that they now take...
Combat Air Power 2021: Competing Visions for the Future
24 March 2021, 9:30Each of the three efforts is aiming to eventually field a family of systems which will work together to deliver future air power effects. However, exactly what form this family of systems will take...
Precision Strike in 21st Century Multidomain Operations
13 May 2021, 12:00The ‘democratisation’ of access to long-range precision strike assets once thought to be components of an exclusively Western revolution in military affairs will have important ramifications for the...
The RUSI Air Power Conference 2006
23 May 2006, 23:00Concept - Delivering Rapid Global EffectThe current requirement for air power is to be able to deliver a variety of effects, rapidly, at distance, and in a variety of operational and political contexts. As recent operations in Iraq and Afghanistan...
International Homeland Security
10 May 2006, 8:15This new annual RUSI conference focused on examining key measures taken at the national and international levels. A comparative evaluation of state responses to homeland security issues, it gave an overview of the specific threats and policy...
HSRD Workshop: Terrorism in the UK
05 May 2006, 8:00Terrorism has become one of the largest threats to international peace and stability. The government is addressing the problem of terrorist activity and its roots within communities in the UK today, in terms of poverty, racism, and social exclusion...
The Defence Industrial Strategy and Government-Industry Relationships
29 March 2006, 8:00The <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />United Kingdom Secretary of State for Defence, Rt Hon John Reid, has announced the publication of a Defence Industrial Strategy in December 2005. An effective...
Equipping the Military
27 February 2006, 9:00No military in the world can function effectively unless its servicemen and women are provided with the right equipment. RUSI’s ‘Equipping the Military’ conference aims to deliver a dynamic and alternative look at the lower end of defence...
Politics & Terrorism 2006
15 February 2006, 9:00The terrorist attacks of July 2005 brought a new if not unexpected element to the terrorist threat from those believed to be connected with Al-Qa'ida. Rooted to some extent inside our own community, the threat combines ideological fervour with...
Gordon Brown at RUSI
13 February 2006, 10:00Chancellor of the Exchequer Rt Hon Gordon Brown delivered a speech at RUSI concerning key policy perspectives UK national security. The Chancellor urged a united, resolute, and long-term stance against terrorism. However, a tough approach to combat...
Creating Effect from the Joint Sea Base: The RUSI Maritime Warfare Conference 2005
13 December 2005, 0:00By definition for a maritime nation, maritime power is a central tenet of the expeditionary strategy. This maritime contribution can apply across the spectrum of operations – from naval diplomacy, to high intensity combat, to co-ordinating...
RUSI Annual Chief of the Defence Staff Lecture
30 November 2005, 17:45Like me, many of you will no doubt have been able to see the moving BBC Series ‘The Last Tommy’ that was screened recently. In this year in which we have turned our attention to commemorating the victories at the end of World War 2 and at Trafalgar...
Nelson the Commander
11 November 2005, 0:00The Battle of Trafalgar was hugely important strategically because it was a defining event in British command of the seas during the Napoleonic Wars and enabling the eventual defeat of Napoleon 10 years later. By the same token it launched British...
Combat Stress Annual Armistice Lecture
09 November 2005, 0:00Combat Stress Annual Armistice LectureWednesday at 12.00 noon (coffee from 11.00 am). 'The Trafalgar Campaign' by Professor Andrew Lambert of <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Kings College,...
Expeditionary Operations in the Modern Era
08 November 2005, 0:00As the Cold War came to an end the UK Armed Forces increasingly found themselves deployed on operations all around the world; from the South Atlantic to the Balkans, from West Africa to the Middle East. However the term 'Expeditionary Operations'...
The Seventh RUSI Missile Defence Conference
02 November 2005, 0:00The conference, our annual Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) event, has grown in stature in recent years, to the end that we will be moving again into the Banqueting House to accommodate an audience we hope will be well in excess of 200. Last year’s...
Defence Project Management Conference 2005: Achieving Project Foresight
18 October 2005, 23:00Driving the Successful Delivery of Major Defence Projects A Challenging Environment for Project ManagementIt is widely recognized that UK defence contractors operate in a challenging contractual environment that is characterised by the...
Morocco, the United Kingdom and the European Union
11 October 2005, 23:00Standing at the gateway of Africa and at the junction of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, the Kingdom of Morocco is the closest Arab country to the European continent. Politically it occupies a similar role. This reality is further...
The Politics of UK Accession to Pacific Free Trade Club
Rose Roth, language and youth
Failure to Lift Off: The UK’s Space Launch Ambitions