Policy-Making in Defence and Security: Lessons from the Strategic Defence and Security Review

Mark Phillips

An insider's account of the SDSR suggests ways forward to ensure better delivery of national security policy

Letters

Major General D P Thomson (Rtd) and Elizabeth Young

Letters on British atrocities in counter-insurgency, and missile defence

Cyber-Weapons

Thomas Rid and Peter McBurney

While ready-made cyber 'weapons' may cause visible embarrassment and incovenience, truly destructive attacks will require bespoke and highly complex packages.

Diplomatic Alternatives to Cyber-Warfare: A Near-Term Agenda

Paul Meyer

International consensus defining a framework of legitimate behaviour in cyberspace is urgently needed

Soldiers, Strategy and Statesmen

Mungo Melvin

The relationship between politicians and generals may be strained, but it is as vital as ever to get it right

Influence, the Indirect Approach and Manoeuvre

Alexander Alderson

Influence, rather than being a radical new idea, has roots in a long tradition of manoeuvre warfare

The EU's Alternative Futures

Jonathan Eyal

Europe's political and financial turbulence is now reverberating into the security realm

The Latest Test for NATO

Mark Laity

An inside view of NATO operations in Libya assesses the achievements and limitations of the campaign

A Quiet Revolution: The Reform of the German Armed Forces

Bjoern H Seibert

The Bundeswehr is undergoing the most important change since the end of the Cold War

In Pursuit of Unity: The West and the Breakup of Yugoslavia

Josip Glaurdic

Western leaders plotted the wrong course in 1991 as Yugoslavia fell apart – but new evidence suggests they had enough prescient intelligence at the time to do otherwise

Not Lawrence, but Lawrance: Transition in Afghanistan and After

Brock Millman

As the Afghan wind-down continues, the T E Lawrence myth is not helpful: Sir Arthur Lawrance is a better example

Reviews

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