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Jack Watling
If the Biden Administration wishes to broker peace in Yemen it needs to reconcile its contradictory policies towards the country and recognise that offensive military action is a necessary component to meaningful negotiation.
Tags: Military Sciences, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding, Middle East and North Africa
Jo Spear
Contemporary football provides a reminder of the multinational nature of British society and its historical war effort.
Tags: RUSI Journal, The Great War, UK, History
Andrew Cainey
The UK’s application to join a free trade arrangement based around the Pacific Rim may result in a fundamental reorientation of the country’s global posture.
Tags: UK Integrated Review 2021, UK, Pacific
Julian King and John Scarlett
The agreement governing future relations between the UK and the EU has addressed only some of the serious questions about future security cooperation. Many challenges lie ahead, and goodwill, as well as attention to detail will be required by both sides.
Tags: UK Integrated Review 2021, Brexit, UK, National Security, Europe
David Hutt
Having failed to beat the EU to the Indo-Pacific, and with US–EU relations less than ideal ahead of Joe Biden’s inauguration this month, the UK could carve out a niche in Asia by aligning with US policy.
Tags: UK Integrated Review 2021, United States, UK
Joyce Anelay
The House of Lords International Relations and Defence Committee, which I chair, has just published its report, ‘The UK and Afghanistan’. Here are its main findings.
Tags: UK Integrated Review 2021, Afghanistan, UK
Andrew Futter and Bleddyn E Bowen
A cocktail of major events might have serious implications for the UK's nuclear deterrent.
Tags: RUSI Journal, Trident, UK, UK Defence
Jack Watling
Artificial intelligence in war may be a good servant, but it is likely to prove a terrible master, for while the character of stupidity may evolve, its nature remains immutable
Tags: Martial Power Programme, Military Sciences, RUSI Defence Systems
Tom Keatinge
The UK has lost its global leadership of the fight against illicit finance. The Johnson government must get the UK back on track.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, RUSI Newsbrief, UK
This year’s Lord Trenchard Memorial Lecture was delivered by Air Marshal Edward Stringer CB CBE MA BEng RAF, Director General Joint Force Development and Defence Academy, UK Ministry of Defence.
Tags: Aerospace, Air Power and Technology, UK
A briefing ahead of the Modernising Defence Programme's publication, offering a parliamentarian's perspective on what is needed for UK defence and how to go about achieving it.
Tags: UK, Defence Policy, UK Defence
A lecture by Nia Griffith MP, Labour Member of Parliament for Llanelli and Shadow Secretary of State for Defence, House of Commons.
Tags: UK, UK Defence
Diversity in the UK's Intelligence Agencies
Financing Right-Wing Extremism and Terrorism
New UK Government Initiative to Support High-Risk, High-Reward Military Science Needs Refinement