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Oliver Yule-Smith
Good or bad, the so-called golden age of UK–China relations should be seen for what it was: a geopolitical wager.
Tags: China, UK
Michael Clarke
The UK government’s attempt to shield its troops from vexatious litigation is laudable. The methods proposed are less so.
Tags: UK, Law and Ethics, Military Personnel
Jack Watling
Amid a lively debate about the viability of the UK’s heavy armour, the loss of over 42 Armenian T-72s to Azerbaijani forces in Nagorno-Karabakh requires further analysis.
Tags: Land Operations, Military Sciences, RUSI Defence Systems, Land Forces
Glenda Cooper and Alexey Naumov
Journalists from the UK and Russia debate the role of their profession in today’s media landscape.
Tags: UK-Russia Security Dialogue, Russia, Art, Culture and Literature, UK, Information, Intelligence, Law and Ethics
Alexander Nikitin and Fletch Williams
Russian and UK-based specialists look at how a thriving but often troubling business sector could be better regulated.
Tags: Armed Forces, UK Integrated Review 2021, United Nations, United States, Iraq, Russia, UK, Law and Ethics
Jack Watling
The use of martial language by politicians in managing the current pandemic obscures fundamental differences between waging war and managing a health crisis.
Tags: Military Sciences, Civil–Military Relations, Coronavirus, UK, Defence Management, National Security, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding
John Andreas Olsen
Airpower professionals need a comprehensive understanding of airpower – from the technology to its relationship with the contemporary political, social and economic context.
Tags: Aerospace, RUSI Journal, Defence Policy
Lord Eustace Percy
This 1919 article makes the case for Britain’s participation in the then newly formed League of Nations.
Tags: RUSI Journal, The Great War, UK, History, Europe
Ewan Lawson
The last century has seen rapid change for airpower – with more innovation on the horizon for the next 100 years.
Tags: Aerospace, RUSI Journal, History
The United Kingdom, United States, and France are approaching a time at which important, but difficult decisions will have to be taken over the future of their national nuclear deterrents. Just as...
Tags: Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, UK Project on Nuclear Issues, United States, US Defence Policy, Americas, France, Trident, UK, Defence Policy, UK Defence, Europe
Unintended Consequences: Humanitarianism and CTF Compliance
The Imperfect Equilibrium of Russian Civil–Military Relations
A Post Mortem of a Disintegrated Review