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Libya’s Nuclear Turnaround What Lies Beneath?
RUSI Journal, December 2006Was Libya’s nuclear turnaround the result of multilateral negotiations, increasingly robust counter-proliferation measures, or domestic developments?
Global Security Issues
REVIEWS
RUSI Journal, December 2006
The Royal Navy and the Indian Ocean Region since 1945
RUSI Journal, December 2006An understanding of Britain’s traditional role in the Indian Ocean region goes a long way to explaining the current situation in which British forces are regularly deployed east of Suez in order to perform a whole range of maritime tasks.

Reassessing T.E. Lawrence: Architect of a Guerrilla Campaign?
RUSI Journal, December 2006Contrary to popular belief, T. E. Lawrence was not instrumental in the Arab revolt of 1916.

Pursuing Nelson
RUSI Journal, December 2006Author Roger Knight outlines the challenges of assembling a fully referenced biography of the Trafalgar hero.

EU-Battlegroups: Some New Capabilities, Actually
RUSI Journal, December 2006The concept of the EU Battlegroup has developed with unusual speed and the somewhat unorthodox solutions to the multilateral arrangements for some of them are distinctly new.

Trident – The Balance of Costs and Benefits
RUSI Journal, December 2006As we come to the end of a procurement cycle, this is the first real opportunity to address Britain's nuclear deterrent since the post-Suez Defence Review in 1957.
Defence Policy, Global Security Issues, Maritime Forces
NATO Missile Defence: The Political and Operational Case for a Two-Base Structure
RUSI Journal, December 2006Missile defence is now central to the security relationship between Europe and the United States, and NATO’s raison d’être. A European debate on BMD is overdue. This article is intended to help initiate such a debate.
Global Security Issues, International Institutions
Private Security Companies in an Insecure World
RUSI Journal, December 2006Private Security Companies operate in a changing context: from a situation of relative security to insecurity and a progressive mosaicization of a society.

The Command, Leadership and Management Challenges of Contemporary Multinational Command
RUSI Journal, December 2006Based on experience in Afghanstan, this article outlines the command, leadership and management skills necessary at the operational theatre level.

The Lead Nation Approach: The Case of Afghanistan
RUSI Journal, December 2006This case study focuses on security sector reform (SSR) in post-conflict Afghanistan, a process driven by foreign actors with insufficient co-ordination, domestic ownership and local capacitybuilding.

Learning about Counter-Insurgency
RUSI Journal, December 2006There is nothing new about insurgency – the nineteenth and twentieth centuries provide plenty of examples of this type of warfare – and, therefore, no shortage of opportunities to learn lessons. Given the latest case-study in Iraq and Afghanistan, what more can we learn?

Transnational Terrorism: Defeating the Threat
RUSI Journal, December 2006There is no path in reason or logic which connects disagreeing with military action against Saddam Hussein and setting out deliberately to kill civilians argues the UK Foreign Secretary.


CIMIC in Iraq
RUSI Journal, December 2006Louise Heywood
An Analysis of British-led Peace Support Operation in Iraq.
Land Forces
The Budding Alliance Between Lockdown Critics and the Far-Right in Germany
FCAS: Is the Franco-German-Spanish Combat Air Programme Really in Trouble?
Getting the Partnership Right