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Jack Watling
If the Integrated Review is to succeed, the government will need to demonstrate through actions, rather than words, that it is able to coordinate interdepartmental activities and support key programmes.
Tags: Military Sciences, UK Integrated Review 2021, UK, Defence PolicyToby Harris
The need to build national resilience against acute shocks and longer-term threats is acknowledged in the UK government’s latest policy review. Diverting resources to this purpose is now the real challenge.
Tags: UK, ResilienceMalcolm Chalmers
In the third of a series of reflections on UK foreign policy, Malcolm Chalmers looks at the government’s Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy.
Tags: UK Integrated Review 2021, Occasional Papers, UK, National Security, UK DefenceJack Watling
If the Integrated Review is to succeed, the government will need to demonstrate through actions, rather than words, that it is able to coordinate interdepartmental activities and support key programmes.
Tags: Military Sciences, UK Integrated Review 2021, UK, Defence PolicyToby Harris
The need to build national resilience against acute shocks and longer-term threats is acknowledged in the UK government’s latest policy review. Diverting resources to this purpose is now the real challenge.
Tags: UK, ResilienceTrevor Taylor
Well-written and brimming with confidence, the recently released Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy is short on detail about its implementation.
Tags: UK Integrated Review 2021, UK, Defence PolicyMungo Melvin
Mungo Melvin reviews Blood, Metal and Dust: How Victory Turned into Defeat in Afghanistan and Iraq, by Ben Barry.
Tags: RUSI Journal, Iraq, UK DefenceRebecca Lucas and Trevor Taylor
States that rely on the global exchange of ideas, capital and people face challenges in preventing the theft of sensitive intellectual property.
Tags: Defence, Industries and Society, RUSI Journal, UK, Defence Management, TechnologyJack Watling
The British Army has properly resourced working with partners and has structured itself to maximise flexibility. This has come at the expense of combat power in the short and medium term.
Tags: Martial Power Programme, Military Sciences, UK Integrated Review 2021, RUSI Defence Systems, Land Forces, UK DefencePeggy Hollinger, International Business Editor at the Financial Times discusses a new RUSI paper authored by Trevor Taylor and John Louth. The paper suggests that the UK needs a speedier defence...
Armed Forces, Defence, Industries and Society, Defence Spending, Equipment and Acquisitions, UK, Defence Policy, UK Defence, EuropeDr Jack Watling, Research Fellow at RUSI, discusses what the new agenda might be for the new Defence Secretary, Penny Mordaunt.
Military Sciences, UK, UK DefenceToday the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation publishes its review into bias in algorithmic decision-making, incorporating RUSI research on the use of algorithms in policing.
Organised Crime and Policing, Policing and Security, Tackling Extremism, UK, Terrorism, UK Defence, EuropeThe UK government has announced plans to overhaul its approach to foreign policy through a new government-wide review. Here, RUSI experts give their initial reaction to the news.
UK Integrated Review 2021, UK, UK DefenceA major research project into military covenants and how signatories put their commitments into practice has today been announced by Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and Nationwide Building...
Armed Forces, Defence, Industries and Society, Defence Management, Military Personnel, UK DefenceAn online briefing from experts of the Royal United Services Institute on the impact of Covid-19 on the UK/China relationship.
Tags: China, International Security Studies, Coronavirus, UKAn online briefing from experts of the Royal United Services Institute on the impact of Covid-19 on the UK.
Tags: UK Integrated Review 2021, Coronavirus, UKMetropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick delivered the inaugural RUSI Annual Security Lecture.
Tags: Cyber, Organised Crime and Policing, UK, Technology, Europe
A Post Mortem of a Disintegrated Review
Revolutions Of War
Strengthening the UK’s National Resilience: The Tasks Ahead