Libya’s Nuclear Turnaround What Lies Beneath?

Was Libya’s nuclear turnaround the result of multilateral negotiations, increasingly robust counter-proliferation measures, or domestic developments?

REVIEWS

The Royal Navy and the Indian Ocean Region since 1945

An 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?

Contrary to popular belief, T. E. Lawrence was not instrumental in the Arab revolt of 1916.

Pursuing Nelson

Author Roger Knight outlines the challenges of assembling a fully referenced biography of the Trafalgar hero.

EU-Battlegroups: Some New Capabilities, Actually

The 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

As 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.

NATO Missile Defence: The Political and Operational Case for a Two-Base Structure

Missile 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.

Private Security Companies in an Insecure World

Private 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

Based 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

This 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

There 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

There 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.

Letters

First World War pardons: the debate

CIMIC in Iraq

Louise Heywood

An Analysis of British-led Peace Support Operation in Iraq.