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High Mountains near the India-China Border landscape.

A Military Analysis of the Sino–Indian Border Clashes

2 June 2020

Chinese military incursions at the border with India may signify Beijing’s desire for a permanent shift in the military status quo between...

Tags: Japan, India, Military Sciences

The King falls in a game of chess. Courtesy of jollier_ / Adobe Stock

Competitive Advantage and Rules in Persistent Competitions

29 April 2020

Strategic goals can be refined through a better understanding of competitive advantage in great power conflict.

Tags: Occasional Papers, Military Sciences, History, Military Personnel, Resilience

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Time-Sensitive Targets, Space and Missile Defence

22 April 2020

Tags: Conference Reports, Military Sciences, Defence Policy, Global Security Issues

"Sidharth Kaushal, a research fellow in sea power at the London-based Royal United Services Institute, warned it was impossible to eliminate risk on naval vessels with cramped living quarters in which social distancing was impossible. “The US navy has restricted sailors’ activities during port calls and, in the medium to long term, they are looking at scaling down deployments such as the Rim of the Pacific exercise later this year, so this could clearly disrupt readiness cycles,” he said. "

Virus outbreak on French warship sparks military weakness fears

16 April 2020

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The US Marine Corps is Fixing Itself to Confronting China

2 April 2020

The US Marine Corps is reorganizing itself to confront China. Ensuring that it can hold ground and sustain its deployments without...

Tags: United States, Military Sciences, RUSI Defence Systems, Martial Power Programme

Modelling the Vulnerability of Aircraft Carriers in the European Theatre

20 March 2020

This article uses a variety of salvo combat models to generate a crude outline of the vulnerability of an aircraft carrier manoeuvring in...

Tags: Military Sciences, RUSI Defence Systems, Martial Power Programme, Maritime Forces

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Competitive Advantage and Rules in Persistent Competitions

29 April 2020

Peter Roberts and Sidharth Kaushal

Strategic goals can be refined through a better understanding of competitive advantage in great power conflict.

Tags: Occasional Papers, Military Sciences, History, Military Personnel, Resilience

Time-Sensitive Targets, Space and Missile Defence

22 April 2020

Sidharth Kaushal and Alexandra Stickings

Tags: Conference Reports, Military Sciences, Defence Policy, Global Security Issues

The US Marine Corps is Fixing Itself to Confronting China

2 April 2020

Sidharth Kaushal and Jack Watling

The US Marine Corps is reorganizing itself to confront China. Ensuring that it can hold ground and sustain its deployments without...

Tags: United States, Military Sciences, RUSI Defence Systems, Martial Power Programme

Modelling the Vulnerability of Aircraft Carriers in the European Theatre

20 March 2020

Sidharth Kaushal

This article uses a variety of salvo combat models to generate a crude outline of the vulnerability of an aircraft carrier manoeuvring in...

Tags: Military Sciences, RUSI Defence Systems, Martial Power Programme, Maritime Forces

A landing craft utility in front of HMS Bulwark. Courtesy of Royal Navy/Joel Rouse/Open Government Licence

Requirements for the UK’s Amphibious Forces in the Future Operating Environment

20 November 2019

Sidharth Kaushal and Jack Watling

This paper outlines the role that littoral areas will have in the Future Operating Environment and the strategic requirements that will...

Tags: Armed Forces, Occasional Papers, Equipment and Acquisitions, Global Strategy and Commitments, Military Sciences, Defence Policy, UK, Land Forces, Maritime Forces, UK Defence, Europe

People's Liberation Army (Navy) ship Qiandaohu (AO 886) steams in close formation as one of 42 ships and submarines representing 15 international partner nations during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Exercise 2014. Courtesy of RIMPAC/Wikimedia Commons

Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones: The Trajectory of China's Maritime Transformation

14 October 2019

Sidharth Kaushal and Magdalena Markiewicz

This Occasional Paper examines China's maritime strategy by placing its contemporary evolution in context.

Tags: Armed Forces, China, Occasional Papers, Equipment and Acquisitions, Military Sciences, Asia, Maritime Forces, Military Personnel, Technology, Pacific

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"Sidharth Kaushal, a research fellow in sea power at the London-based Royal United Services Institute, warned it was impossible to eliminate risk on naval vessels with cramped living quarters in which social distancing was impossible. “The US navy has restricted sailors’ activities during port calls and, in the medium to long term, they are looking at scaling down deployments such as the Rim of the Pacific exercise later this year, so this could clearly disrupt readiness cycles,” he said. "

Virus outbreak on French warship sparks military weakness fears

16 April 2020 Tags:

"Dr Sidharth Kaushal, a research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, said the Ministry of Defence’s traditional approach “is to assume long-range ballistic missiles are tipped with WMD [weapons of mass destruction], which are dealt with by the nuclear deterrent. “However, there is a recognition that a power such as Russia might use conventionally tipped ballistic missiles to weaken our ability to respond in a crisis.”"

‘Britain is exposed to the threat of missile attacks’

14 February 2020 Tags: Air Power and Technology, Military Sciences

"“One of the major drawbacks of HELs [High Energy Lasers] is their energy requirement, something that is obviated if one places them on a nuclear-powered submarine, which generates enough power to operate them as well as everything else on board,” Sidharth Kaushal, Research Fellow in Sea Power at RUSI, told Popular Mechanics. "

The Navy Is Arming Nuclear Subs With Lasers. No One Knows Why.

4 February 2020 Tags: Military Sciences, UK Defence

"Dr Sidharth Kaushal, research fellow in sea power at the Royal United Services Institute, a London-based think tank, said if the Chinese have developed the ability to target missiles like the DF 21-D in combat scenarios, with improved and resilient tracking systems, it “really would be a game-changing technology”. He added that the cost of these missiles, at around £25 million each, compared with the cost of any western carrier, at several billion pounds, means “firing crew can afford a few misses, but the carrier can only afford the one hit”."

Britain’s newest warships at risk from Chinese

11 December 2019 Tags: Military Sciences

"Dr Sidharth Kaushal, a research fellow at the UK-based Royal United Services Institute, told the BBC the photos "probably prove" the tanker was attacked, but it was not clear what with. "

Gulf tanker attacks: Iran releases photos of 'attacked' ship

14 October 2019 Tags: Iran, The Gulf Region, Middle East and North Africa

"“It’s difficult to offer protection and would have been even two or three decades ago during the Armilla patrols of the 1980s, when the Royal Navy could keep two or three frigates on station in the Gulf but still couldn’t have necessarily covered every particular contingency in the region. But it’s true that it could have offered perhaps a more robust protection to British tankers in the region.”"

Dr Sidharth Kaushal on the Royal Navy's presence in the Gulf

22 July 2019 Tags: Iran, Military Sciences, UK, Maritime Forces

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