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Is Space the New Cyber? UK Dependencies and Vulnerabilities

Alexandra Stickings
Conference Reports, 13 March 2019
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On 16 January 2019, RUSI convened a conference to discuss the ways in which the UK government is dependent upon space and the threats and hazards to space assets that create vulnerabilities in government activities.

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BANNER IMAGE: Courtesy of European Space Agency,CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO/Wikimedia

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Alexandra Stickings is Research Fellow for Space Policy and Security within the Military Sciences team at RUSI.... read more

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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 each nation faces a unique set of questions and challenges, each nation responds to them in a unique manner.

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A lecture by Professor Gary Sheffield, Chair of War Studies, University of Wolverhampton, commemorating the life of Field Marshal Earl Haig of Bemersyde and the forces he commanded.From the 1950s to the 1990s, the military historian John Terraine did more than anyone else to challenge simplistic 'lions led by donkeys' views about the First World War and to rehabilitate the reputation of Field...

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