UK

NATO's National Resilience Obligations

Madeleine Moon

NATO’s mutual defence guarantees are well-known. But less known is the duty which the Alliance’s member-states have to improve their national resilience.

"“A new government – or even a new general election – would solve nothing unless it also led to a new Brexit policy, or to no Brexit,” Professor Malcolm Chalmers, Deputy Director General of Royal United Services Institute, told VICE News. "

Theresa May Suffered Another Disastrous Brexit Defeat And No One Knows What To Do Next

Is Space the New Cyber? UK Dependencies and Vulnerabilities

Alexandra Stickings

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.

Fusion Doctrine: One Year On

William McKeran

The Fusion Doctrine is steadily reshaping the UK's approach to strategy.

"Tom Keatinge, director of the centre for financial crime security studies at the think-tank RUSI, said the government should be commended for acknowledging the scale of the problem and introducing new powers to combat economic crime. But he added: “We still don’t have the necessary situational awareness of the risk we face — our radar is not as illuminated as it should be. We don’t collect the same level of information about financial activity as they do in, for example, Australia — we don’t know what money is coming into or leaving the UK.” "

MPs call for database of people linked to ‘dirty money’

"Raffaello Pantucci, director of international security studies at the think-tank the Royal United Services Institute said that while the London devices looked “amateurish” there was a level of “sophistication and professionalism” in the co-ordinated way the three transport hubs were targeted. "

Fire bombs target three London transport hubs