You are here
Book Review: The Quiet Man
Todd JohnsonRUSI Journal, 9 November 2015
United States, History, National Security
Continue Reading
Become A Member
To access the full text of this article and many other benefits, become a RUSI member.
Support Rusi Research
Subscribe to our Newsletter
Related
Book Review: Does War Make States? Investigations of Charles Tilly's Historical Sociology
RUSI Journal, 17 October 2018Jeff Carter
Jeff Carter reviews Does War Make States? Investigations of Charles Tilly's Historical Sociology, edited by Lars Bo Kaspersen and Jeppe Strandsbjerg
Tags: RUSI Journal, History, Europe
Security on the Korean Peninsula: The Latest from RUSI
RUSI Newsbrief, 4 October 2018Tom Plant and Cristina Varriale
A flurry of recent activity on the North Korean diplomatic front has kept researchers in the Proliferation and Nuclear Policy programme at RUSI extremely busy over the past few months. Their latest research findings indicate that policymakers should focus on pursuing small gains over a grand bargain, as well as balancing Tokyo’s long-term view and scepticism of China with Seoul’s focus on short-...
Tags: Asia, China, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, United States, Japan, RUSI Newsbrief, North Korea, Global Security Issues, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy
Collision Course in the South China Sea?
Commentary, 3 October 2018Veerle Nouwens
The United States and Chinese navies have just narrowly avoided a dangerous collision. This was not an accident but an escalation, a show of force on the part of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) to drive out the US Navy from what China considers its territorial waters in the South China Sea.
Tags: China, United States, Defence Policy, Law and Ethics, Maritime ForcesPages
Beyond the 'Learning Curve': The British Army's Military Transformation in the First World War
Commentary, 10 November 2009Placing the British army's experience on the Western Front into the context of wider military developments in strategic and tactical thinking amongst allies and opponents alike, Dr Philpott's assessment of the often traumatic but nonetheless dynamic transformation in the conduct of war between 1914 and 1918 provides an important corrective to the existing Anglo-centric interpretation.
Tags: History, Land Forces, Europe
The reluctant pupil? Britain’s army and learning in counter-insurgency
Commentary, 11 October 2009The operational errors of counter-insurgency campaigns are too often blamed on the inability of armed forces to absorb the lessons of previous campaigns. However, as Huw Bennett demonstrates in his examination of the British Army’s experience in Northern Ireland, flexibility in adapting to the unique dynamics of each campaign is of far great importance than a strict application of out-dated...
Tags: History, Europe
Robert McNamara (1916-2009)
Commentary, 6 July 2009As the death of former US Defense Secretary Robert McNamara is announced, RUSI.org publishes remarks made by him at the Royal United Services Institute in 2001.
Tags: Americas, HistoryPages
RUSI's Roll of Honour, 1914–18
RUSI Journal, 21 August 2014As we mark the centenary of the start of the First World War, the Royal United Services Institute publishes its Roll of Honour listing those members who died during the conflict
Tags: RUSI Journal, The Great War, UK, History, Europe
Life Writing, Fiction and Modernism in British Narratives of the First World War
RUSI Journal, 21 August 2014Max Saunders
Popular memory may be shaped by poetry, but it is in prose that some of the most compelling and innovative literary work about the First World War is to be found
Tags: RUSI Journal, The Great War, Art, Culture and Literature, History
British Air Power from Potential to Fully Fledged Service, 1914–45
RUSI Journal, 21 August 2014Peter Gray
The First World War set British air power on a path of development that by 1939 made an essential contribution to the conduct of war
Tags: Aerospace, Air Power and Technology, RUSI Journal, The Great War, UK, History, Europe
Ethiopia: A New Proxy Battlespace?
The NGO–Human Rights Sanctions Link
Trailer: Global Security Briefing Podcast Series