Annual Chief of the Defence Staff Lecture 2020
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Douglas Haig Fellowship Lecture: The Tank in World War One – Did Haig Help or Hinder its Development?
29 January 2021, 13:00Major General J.F.C. Fuller, Chief of Staff of the Tank Corps from 1916 to mid-1918 and a key player in its successes, wrote in his memoirs...
The Future of UK Security, Law Enforcement and Intelligence Co-operation with the European Union
04 February 2021, 16:00Post-Brexit, UK police and security agencies were keen to maintain access to SIS II, an EU database with real-time crime alerts, to the...
Launch of the Gender in Conflict and Security Webinar Series - Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women
08 February 2021, 16:00The war crime few want to talk about: rape is used as a weapon to humiliate, oppress, seize territory, and carry out ethnic cleansing....
Transatlantic Perspectives on Cyber Security: Challenges and Opportunities
16 February 2021, 16:00Cyber security has become a priority issue globally, a fact further underscored by the Covid-19 pandemic. In this wide-ranging discussion,...
Goodbye Britannia: The UK Challenged by Brexit
23 February 2021, 16:00The outcome of the 2016 Brexit referendum sparked astonishment around the world and in the UK, widely regarded as the epitome of...
Combat Air Power 2021: Competing Visions for the Future
24 March 2021, 9:30Evolving peer threats, new budgetary pressures and national industrial imperatives are fuelling fierce competition. This online conference will examine the key next-generation combat air approaches...
POSTPONED - Does the Current Strategy to Counter Terrorist Financing Work?
18 March 2020, 16:00RUSI Whitehall
Since 9/11, targeting the finances of terrorist actors has been a central element of the global counterterrorism landscape. Indeed, the first public shot fired by George W Bush in his ‘War on Terror’ was a financial measure in the form of Executive...
Secret Alliances: Special Operations and Intelligence in Norway 1940-1945 - The British Perspective
16 March 2020, 13:00RUSI Whitehall
After the events of World War Two, General Eisenhower commented that there had never before been a war where resistance forces were so closely harnessed to the military effort. Drawing on material from his latest book, Secret Alliances, Dr Insall...
POSTPONED: International Women’s Day 2020 - Women as Agents: A History of Female Intelligencers
11 March 2020, 18:00RUSI Whitehall
Traditionally, these stories are predominantly male, a few famous historical figures notwithstanding. It is only very recently that the agency of women is becoming increasingly central to narratives, both real and fictional, as female writers and...
CANCELLED: Advancing Africa: Changes influencing Africa's fragile peace landscape - A conversation with Alan Doss, President of the Kofi Annan Foundation
11 March 2020, 11:00RUSI Whitehall
PLEASE NOTE, THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED.Africa is today witnessing democratic setbacks. Electoral constituencies are being gerrymandered, the control over electoral management bodies and judicial institutions manipulated, vote-buying, and the...
RUSI Integrating Information Manoeuvre Conference
10 March 2020, 9:00RUSI Whitehall
This information space has become the prominent area and medium for competition. The substantial erosion of the rules-based international system has created new and evolving implicit rules of competition, and the prospect of outright victory has...
UK-Russia Security Dialogue 2019-2020 London Report Launch
09 March 2020, 12:30RUSI Whitehall
Against the backdrop of a strained UK-Russia political relationship, over the past year RUSI and the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) convened a series of workshops bringing together policy and industry specialists from the United...
Maritime Security in the Gulf of Guinea
09 March 2020, 10:00Maritime security in the Gulf of Guinea is a pressing issue with ramifications both for the region and the wider world. A range of non-traditional security challenges from petro-piracy to maritime environmental degradation act as constraints on the...
International Women’s Day: Marking the 20th anniversary of UNSCR 1325
06 March 2020, 15:00RUSI Whitehall
UNSCR 1325 was a landmark resolution. It affirmed that peace and security efforts are more sustainable when women are equal partners in the prevention of violent conflict, the delivery of relief and recovery efforts, and the forging of lasting peace...
UK PONI Lockheed Martin Tour and Writing Workshop
03 March 2020, 9:00The Ampthill facility supports a range of capabilities, including: air-land integration; battlespace management; ground-based air defense; weapons safety, integration and support. Furthermore, the facility’s portfolio includes complex mission...
RUSI Missile Defence and Space Conference 2020
26 February 2020, 8:30RUSI Whitehall
While a good deal of attention has been paid to the dynamic between missile salvos and missile defences at the strategic level, the emphasis of the field may well shift to the operational level of warfare in coming years. A step change in both the...
The Future of Economic Crime Policing in the UK
25 February 2020, 16:30RUSI Whitehall
This culminated in the launch of the first ever cross-government, public-private Economic Crime Plan in July 2019, which sought to get a grip on the problem by taking action along a number of policy, legislative and operational streams. Essential...
Protecting Advanced Economies Against Cyber Attacks
25 February 2020, 8:30RUSI Whitehall
Dr Samantha Ravich, a member of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission – a bipartisan commission mandated by the US Congress, comprising leaders of federal security agencies as well as congressional leaders – and Vice Chair of President Trump’s...
RUSI Annual Security Lecture
24 February 2020, 11:00RUSI Whitehall
> Read the RUSI report on Data Analytics and Algorithms in Policing launched at this event. The Speech "Last night, I spoke to ‘Tony’ who is one of my sergeants who works on the Venice team. The Venice team have reduced moped enabled crime in...
UK PONI Roundtable: Lessons from the 1960s (TSR2 and Polaris) for the contemporary Defence Nuclear Enterprise.
20 February 2020, 10:30RUSI Whitehall
This event is for UK PONI members only. To become a member please email ukponi@rusi.orgDuring this period, Polaris missiles and Resolution class submarines were procured, with Polaris later upgraded under the Chevaline programme, whilst the nuclear...
UK Strategic Command Conference
18 February 2020, 9:00RUSI Whitehall
In 2012, the UK formed the Joint Forces Command to manage and deliver specific joint capabilities and lead on the conceptual component for Defence. Seven years later in December 2019, Joint Forces Command transitioned into Strategic Command. The...
Poland’s Decisive Role in Cracking Enigma and Transforming the UK’s SIGINT Operations
Against the Clock: Can the EU’s New Strategy for Terrorist Content Removal Work?
Yemen: Engaging, Not Isolating