

Tom Ascott was previously the Digital Communications Manager at the Royal United Services Institute before leaving in February 2021. In... 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, TechnologyClaudia 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, UKPeter Roberts
With the arrival of each new US president, the incumbent UK prime minster hopes to revitalise the UK–US ‘special relationship’ in defence and security. It has largely been missing in action since the heady days of the Reagan–Thatcher relationship.
Tags: UK Integrated Review 2021, United States, UKHarun Karčić
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s post-war structure remains fragile, and without international support and scaffolding it risks remaining a frozen conflict.
Tags: RUSI Newsbrief, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding, EuropeGeorgina Holmes
The UK can play an important role in supporting the development of best practice in peacekeeping throughout Africa.
Tags: RUSI Journal, UK Integrated Review 2021, UK, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding, AfricaAnjuli Shere and Miranda Melcher
The power and independence of the Information Commissioner’s Office appear to have been overstated. Downing Street has built-in oversight of funds and coronavirus data is not being protected.
Tags: RUSI Newsbrief, Coronavirus, UK, InformationDavid Davis, Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, discussed security co-operation post-Brexit.
Tags: UK, EuropeAn address by Her Excellency Mrs Erna Solberg, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Norway.
Tags: NATO, International Institutions, EuropeThe conference examined the opportunities and challenges involved in human-machine combat teaming for naval warfare in the future.
Tags: Military Sciences, UK, Maritime Forces, Technology
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