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Northern Composure: Initial Observations from Sweden’s Total Defence 2020 Exercise
Commentary, 3 September 2020Gerhard Wheeler CBE
Sweden’s approach to national resilience is being tested again. The lessons such exercises yield have a wider applicability to all democracies
Tags: Modern Deterrence, Resilience
How Latvia Accomplishes Comprehensive Defence
Commentary, 25 June 2020Artis Pabriks
Can all crises and conflicts be predicted and fully averted? Unfortunately, no. Can we be better prepared for crises and conflicts that may arise? Indeed, we can.
Tags: Modern Deterrence, Civil–Military Relations, Domestic Security, Resilience
Insurance Gaps: A Growing Vulnerability for National Security
RUSI Newsbrief, 19 June 2020Hélène Galy and James Vickers
Insurance protection gaps are fast becoming a high-priority issue for national and international security, not just one that captures headlines in the aftermath of natural catastrophes.
Tags: Modern Deterrence, RUSI Newsbrief, Coronavirus, Domestic Security, ResiliencePages

The Coronavirus Epidemic and Panic Buying: Follow the East German Example
Commentary, 23 March 2020Elisabeth Braw
Of society and resilience: the scarcities of the past, and the panic buying of today.
Tags: Military Sciences, Modern Deterrence, Coronavirus, Germany, UK, Europe
Europe’s Coronavirus Response: Selfish Member States and Active Institutions
Commentary, 18 March 2020Elisabeth Braw
EU member states displayed little solidarity in the current crisis, but EU institutions fared better.
Tags: Military Sciences, Modern Deterrence, Coronavirus, Europe
Coronavirus Preparedness: Lessons Yet to be Learnt
Commentary, 3 March 2020Elisabeth Braw
Liberal democracies remain vulnerable to mass epidemics, despite the prevalence of time-tested methods to improve national resilience capabilities.
Tags: Military Sciences, Modern Deterrence, United States, Coronavirus, Europe, Central and South Asia, Middle East and North AfricaPages

The Gathering Storm: As the Baltic States Prepare to Disconnect from the Russian Power Grid, the Kremlin is Ready to ‘Help’
RUSI Newsbrief, 2 August 2019Justinas Juozaitis
With the Baltic states on-track to become independent from centralised Russian control over their power networks, the Kremlin has demonstrated an alarming potential to disconnect them from its power grid before they are ready to join the continental European network.
Tags: Modern Deterrence, RUSI Newsbrief, Russia, Global Security Issues
Delegating Deterrence: Can ‘Privateering’ Help Solve the Cyber Warfare Puzzle?
RUSI Newsbrief, 27 June 2019David Rudd
In an era of great power competition, the UK and its allies may find that one answer to the challenge posed by adversary cyber operations lies in the distant past
Tags: Cyber, Modern Deterrence, RUSI Newsbrief
Second Strike Communications
RUSI Newsbrief, 17 May 2019Elisabeth Braw
To counter disinformation campaigns, liberal democracies should focus on second-strike capabilities.
Tags: Military Sciences, Modern Deterrence, RUSI Newsbrief, Domestic Security, National Security, TechnologyPages

Bridging the Innovation Gap: How to Improve Cooperation Between Tech Startups and the National Security Community
Events, 22 September 2020At this event chaired by Sir Michael Fallon, NATO Assistant Secretary-General Giedrimas Jeglinskas, Isar Aerospace Co-Founder and CEO Daniel Metzler and Dr Staffan Truvé, Co-Founder and CTO, Recorded...
Tags: Military Sciences, Modern Deterrence
Building Stronger Societies Webinar Series: Organising Ourselves for the Next Crisis
Events, 16 September 2020As part of RUSI’s Building Stronger Societies webinar series, Craig Fugate, former Administrator of the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Elisabeth Braw, Senior Research Fellow in...
Tags: Modern Deterrence
Keeping Online Payments Safe: Resilience of Digital Payments
Events, 2 September 2020Online payments are accelerating, not least as a result of coronavirus-related lifestyle changes.
Tags: Military Sciences, Modern Deterrence
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Financing Right-Wing Extremism and Terrorism
New UK Government Initiative to Support High-Risk, High-Reward Military Science Needs Refinement