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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, 16:00Europeans 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...
Military History Circle: Manstein: Hitler’s Greatest General- The Triumph of Operational Virtuosity over Strategic Sense
10 July 2006, 11:15Brigadier (P) R A M S Melvin is Director Operational Capability, UK Ministry of Defence. He was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1975. He has seen a variety of regimental service and staff (general and joint) employment in the <?xml:...
DARFUR: Towards a settlement
06 July 2006, 8:00The signature of a peace agreement in May 2006 between the Sudanese government and one rebel group may pave the way for a settlement of the conflict in Darfur. This conference assessed the issue of current and future post-conflict stabilisation and...
Military History Circle: Monte Cassino and the Italian Campaign from the German Perspective
04 July 2006, 11:15Ian Passingham joined the army as a private soldier and was later commissioned in the Royal Hampshire Regiment. Since 1995 he has been a writer and defence analyst. He is the author of Pillars of Fire: The Battle of Messines Ridge, June 1917 (2000)...
Docking Mechanisms: How will the European Defence Agency cooperate with partners?
26 June 2006, 8:00Before Christmas EU Defence Ministers agreed to a Code of Conduct for defence procurement, designed to introduce foreign competition into EU countries’ defence procurement processes. The Code is just one of a host of European Defence Agency...
Technology for Security & Resilience 2006
26 June 2006, 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...
Evolution of the British-American Special Relationship in the Defence Industry
21 June 2006, 8:00The ‘Special Relationship’ between the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />UK and the US has evolved more recently through the alliance forged against terrorism and the joint vision of mutual...
Russia, Central Asia and the Caucasus: Energy and Security
20 June 2006, 8:00<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Russia’s Presidency of the G8 comes at a time of important developments affecting energy demand and supply scenarios for Europe and the Asia-Pacific region....
Mass Event Security - Forthcoming Challenges for London
05 June 2006, 7:30With the global threat from terrorism, large sporting events represent a potential security nightmare. Memories of the Munich Olympics massacre and the Atlanta Olympics bombing still loom large and with the London 2012 team busy making preparations...
UN Peacekeepers’ Conference Keeping Today’s International Peace: A job for more than the Military
31 May 2006, 8:00This Conference for Members is held annually in association with the United Nations Association on or about 29 May, the International Day of UN Peacekeepers. This third conference offers the first public platform to the British government to...
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...
Diversity in the UK's Intelligence Agencies
Financing Right-Wing Extremism and Terrorism
New UK Government Initiative to Support High-Risk, High-Reward Military Science Needs Refinement