

Tom Ascott is the Digital Communications Manager at the Royal United Services Institute. He is in charge of coordinating all of RUSI's... read more
James Sullivan
The UK government must learn quickly from its policy decisions around its 5G networks, and start grappling much earlier with risks posed by other emerging technologies.
Tags: Cyber Security, UK Integrated Review 2021, UK, TechnologyAnton Moiseienko
Unexplained wealth orders are now being used to tackle criminal wealth in the UK, but they are more complicated and less powerful in practice than in popular imagination.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF, UKJamie MacColl and Sneha Dawda
An attempted cyber attack against a water treatment plant in Florida highlights endemic failures in the cyber security of the US water sector.
Tags: Cyber, Cyber Security, United States, Resilience, TechnologyTony Comer
Enigma was broken at Bletchley Park because of the Polish decision in 1939 to share all they knew. That led to a radical transformation of British signals intelligence.
Tags: UK, History, IntelligenceClaudia Wallner
The European Commission’s proposed plan to take down online terrorist content within an hour of publication seems limited in its effectiveness and risks ignoring other aspects of extremist activities online.
Tags: Terrorism and Conflict, Technology, Terrorism, EuropeAniseh Bassiri Tabrizi, Darya Dolzikova and Tom Plant
UK and US policy towards Iran has diverged substantially in recent years, and both countries need to work hard to restore their partnership. The UK can do its part through a re-energised agenda on the Iran nuclear file, and towards Middle Eastern security more broadly.
Tags: Iranian Nuclear Pathways, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, UK Integrated Review 2021, United States, Unpacking the MENA, Iran, UKAndrew Rathmell
Andrew Rathmell reviews The Dragons and the Snakes: How the West Learned to Fight the Rest, by David Kilcullen.
Tags: China, RUSI Journal, United States, Defence Policy, Global Security Issues, EuropeDavid Crouch
David Crouch reviews Toxic: A History of Nerve Agents, From Nazi Germany to Putin’s Russia, by Dan Kaszeta.
Tags: RUSI Journal, Global Security Issues, TechnologyJustin Bronk
Justin Bronk reviews Fighters in the Blood: The Story of a Spitfire Pilot and the Son Who Followed in His Footsteps, by Air Marshal ‘Black’ Robertson.
Tags: Aerospace, Military Sciences, RUSI Journal, UK, HistoryProfessor Trevor Taylor, head of RUSI's Defence, Industries and Societies Programme gives an analysts' perspective of the Farnborough International Airshow and the technology show cased there.
Aerospace, TechnologyA briefing ahead of the Modernising Defence Programme's publication, offering a parliamentarian's perspective on what is needed for UK defence and how to go about achieving it.
Tags: UK, Defence Policy, UK DefenceA lecture by Nia Griffith MP, Labour Member of Parliament for Llanelli and Shadow Secretary of State for Defence, House of Commons.
Tags: UK, UK DefenceGeneral Stephen J. Townsend, commander of the US Army Training and Doctrinal Command will deliver the 72nd Annual Kermit Roosevelt Lecture.
Tags: Military Sciences, United States, UK
Dependent Deterrent? US Support for the UK’s New Nuclear Warhead
New Zealand's Indo-Pacific Recalibration
The Budding Alliance Between Lockdown Critics and the Far-Right in Germany