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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.

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...

We Are Bellingcat: An Intelligence Agency for the People
17 March 2021, 16:00Bellingcat has redefined the way we think about news, politics, and the digital future. Its founder tells the story of how he and his team...

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...
World War Two in Perspective
12 July 2005, 23:00<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> By Professor Sir Michael Howard OM CH CBE MC FBA. From 1300 -1415 (Sandwich Lunch from 1215) A fee of £6 is payable for the sandwich lunch. This event is...
Unmanned Vehicle Systems 2005
11 July 2005, 23:00A Military Sciences One-Day ConferenceTuesday 12 July 20050900 – 1800Unmanned Vehicle Systems (UVS) are now an integral part of military operations, not only in the form of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) but increasingly as ground and maritime...
Imperial Overstretch, from Dr Arnold to Mr Blair
10 July 2005, 23:00Dr Correlli Barnett CBE <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> From 1245 – 1400 (Sandwich Lunch from 1215) The British Empire / Commonwealth constituted not a strategic asset to Britain, but a burden....
Iraq as an Intelligence Sucess and Policy Failure
07 July 2005, 23:00By Scott Ritter, former United Nations weapons inspector 1300 – 1400 (Sandwich Lunch from 1215) Scott Ritter is no stranger to controversy. In September 2002 he told officials in Baghdad that military action against Iraq was unjustified. Since he...
The Future of the UK Strategic Deterrent
05 July 2005, 23:00Rethinking the Role of Strategic Deterrence in British Defence Policy Wednesday 6th July 2005 Britain’s position as a nuclear power has been fundamental to its role in the world order. In the 2003 Defence White Paper, the United Kingdom Government...
Science and Technology for a Transforming Alliance, Workshop III
30 June 2005, 0:00RUSI is leading a research project entitled ‘Science and Technology for a Transforming Alliance’. The project seeks to evaluate the role of collective transatlantic S&T programmes in the context of NATO and EU military and political...
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-45
29 June 2005, 23:00Thursday 30 June 2005 from 1245 – 1400 (<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Sandwich Lunch from 1215) The Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies would like to invite you to...
Reforming NATO Force Generation, Workshop II
29 June 2005, 23:00Improved force generation has been a key concern of the incumbent NATO Secretary General during his first year-and-a-half in office. The need for more ‘usable’ forces was a central theme of the Istanbul Summit Communiqué. A comprehensive list of...
Terrorism Laws
29 June 2005, 23:00RUSI would like to invite you to attend a debate that will be recorded for broadcast later this year on BBC Radio 4. Professor Conor Gearty of the LSE's Centre For Human Rights will argue that all special terrorism laws should be abolished...
Technology for Security & Resilience
26 June 2005, 7:30Each component of a society plays an integral role in the provision of that nation’s security and resilience. These roles are complex and intertwined and can range from:• A government ensuring that the threats and risks that are faced are adequately...
Terrorism in the UK
21 June 2005, 23:00A <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Homeland Security & Resilience Department One-Day Workshop<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />Terrorist...
Science and Technology for a Transforming Alliance, Workshop II
19 June 2005, 23:00RUSI is leading a research project entitled ‘Science and Technology for a Transforming Alliance’. The project seeks to evaluate the role of collective transatlantic defence S&T programmes in the context of NATO and EU military and political...
Gallipoli Memorial Lecture 2005: Whither Defence? – A Personal View
19 June 2005, 23:00Air Chief Marshal Sir Anthony Bagnall, Vice Chief of the Defence Staff 1300 – 1400 (Sandwich Lunch from 1215) This year’s Gallipoli Memorial Lecture will cover the changing face of the world and of defence, in particular during Sir Anthony’s 41...
Whitehall Dialogue: The Royal Navy’s Role in Humanitarian and Natural Disasters
16 June 2005, 23:00by Captain Steve Chick, Royal Navy, CO of HMS CHATHAM From 1215 - 1430 In the wake of the Asian Tsunami on Boxing Day 2004 and the Summer Hurricanes in the Caribbean before, the Royal Navy has accrued some recent experience in dealing with...
Austria Fifty Years After the State Treaty
14 June 2005, 23:00On 15 May 1955, the signing of the Austrian State Treaty heralded the departure, within three months, of the occupying Soviet military and re-established Austria as a democratic, independent state. Whilst celebrations organised by the Austrian...
Iran in the South Caucasus: Adjustment and Evolution
Rose Roth, language and youth
The Politics of UK Accession to Pacific Free Trade Club