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...
Fighting with Pride: LGBTQ+ in the British Armed Forces
17 February 2020, 13:00RUSI Whitehall
In this wide-ranging discussion, LGBTQ+ servicemen and women who have served in the British Armed Forces since the Second World War will discuss their remarkable lives. These are stories and profoundly moving testaments to loyalty, courage on the...
UK PONI Workshop: Introduction to Nuclear Weapons Policy
11 February 2020, 9:00RUSI Whitehall
UK PONI will hold a one-day workshop comprising a series of seminars from RUSI staff on nuclear policy basics, covering deterrence, disarmament, proliferation and nuclear programmes worldwide. This workshop is aimed at early career professionals...
Breakfast Briefing - The Politics of Arms Control: Getting Beyond Post-Cold War Pathologies and Finding Security in a Competitive Environment
11 February 2020, 8:15RUSI Whitehall
In this briefing, Dr Ford will assess the various objectives and motivations shaping arms control advocacy and policies in the post-Cold War period, and emphasise the central role that security plays in the Trump Administration’s arms control...
Britain in the World
10 February 2020, 8:30RUSI Whitehall
Conference Information Britain’s departure from the European Union signals the beginning of new challenges, opportunities and priorities. Foreign policy will have to explore how Britain fits into a new competitive and more state-based...
Breakfast Briefing: Countering Cyber Risk - Threats, Responses and Future Trends
05 February 2020, 8:15RUSI Whitehall
Recent research suggests that business leaders now see cyber security as the top risk to their businesses, and the British Government has publicly stated that cyber is one of only three top tier threats to the UK’s national security. Lord Evans will...
Douglas Haig Fellowship Lecture: Haig and the Aftermath
31 January 2020, 13:00RUSI Whitehall
On 11 November 1918, Douglas Haig must have welcomed his imminent release from the immense burdens he had stoically borne for three years. He appreciated, however, that he would not yet be able to say ‘goodbye to all that’. Even before the war’s...
Insurance Gaps: A Growing Vulnerability
28 January 2020, 8:30Though insurance gaps is a little-known term outside the insurance industry, and one not associated with national security, it is becoming a national security issue. According to a new report by Lloyd’s, $133bn is at risk in major cities across the...
Professor Azar Gat on Has War been Declining: Why and Where?
27 January 2020, 13:00RUSI Whitehall
While the world has become more peaceful than ever before, there is still much to worry about in terms of security and no place for complacency. Recent years have seen vicious wars in south and Central Asia, the Middle East and Africa, the rise of...
Breakfast Briefing: What Works (and What Doesn’t) in Efforts to Prevent or Counter Violent Extremism?
24 January 2020, 8:15RUSI Whitehall
One of the most important lessons of the last two decades is that military and security-focused operations – in isolation – do not end terrorist movements. Efforts to prevent or counter violent extremism (P/CVE) have therefore become an intrinsic...
Ecole de Guerre Public Debate
10 December 2019, 17:00RUSI Whitehall
In 2010, the Lancaster House Treaties set France on a path of pursuing greater interoperability with Britain in defence-related matters. As the agreement approaches its tenth birthday, however, two largely unexpected developments have arisen which...
Tech innovation: the potential for startup-government collaboration
10 December 2019, 8:30RUSI Whitehall
There is a major divide between the tech industry and the armed forces. In 2018 Google, for example, ended an artificial intelligence project for the Pentagon. This divide is troubling, because governments rely on the tech industry for innovative...
Have I Got Nukes for You: The UK PONI Christmas Quiz
09 December 2019, 18:30RUSI Whitehall
Given the success of our previous UK PONI Christmas quizzes, we’re back for a fourth year! Get ready to pull on those Christmas jumpers and join other UK PONI members for an evening of friendly competition and quiz fun! Prizes will also be awarded...
Annual Chief of the Defence Staff Lecture and RUSI Christmas Party 2019
05 December 2019, 18:30RUSI Whitehall
Gen, Chief of the Defence Staff, UK Ministry of Defence. The Chief of the Defence Staff Lecture is held annually at RUSI, covering key topical defence and security issues. The Speech Excellencies, my lords, ladies and gentlemen – it’s a great...
Breakfast Briefing: Intelligence Assessment and Policymaking: Learning the Lessons of the Past Fifteen Years
04 December 2019, 8:15RUSI Whitehall
In the aftermath of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, a Committee of Privy Counsellors under Lord Butler of Brockwell was asked to review the pre-war intelligence on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction and to ‘make recommendations on the gathering,...
The Future of Fires: Report Launch
29 November 2019, 10:00RUSI Whitehall
The paper is available here.The increasing density and sophistication of Russia’s Integrated Air Defence System promises to rob NATO ground forces of air support in the first weeks of any high intensity conflict in Eastern Europe. NATO ground forces...
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