Mr Hannigan has spent much of his career in national security, having recently been director of GCHQ, the UK's largest intelligence and security agency. He was also a member of the National Security Council.

Mr Hannigan has spent much of his career in national security, having recently been director of GCHQ, the UK's largest intelligence and security agency. He was also a member of the National Security Council.
Edward Schwarck
The mass internment of Xinjiang’s Uyghurs in supposed ‘re-education’ facilities as a means of combatting violent extremism suggests that Beijing lacks confidence in the effectiveness of its intelligence architecture, and by extension, its capacity to identify and eliminate actual terrorist threats.
Tags: Asia, China, International Security Studies, New Silk Road, RUSI Newsbrief, Counterinsurgency, Intelligence, Technology, TerrorismKayla Izenman
The US government’s move against two alleged cyber-criminals serves as a warning sign to the cryptocurrency community. The community may choose to respond by cloaking itself in an even heavier mantle of anonymity, or it may just understand that it stands to gain from policing its activities.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Cyber, Financial Crime 2.0, Future UK Cyber Security Strategy Project, Illicit Trade, Sanctions, United States, US Defence Policy, AML/CTF, Law and Ethics, Organised Crime, TechnologyPeter Roberts
RUSI convened a conference on Lethal Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy on 7 November 2018, aimed at illuminating some of the challenges that are unique to military forces in the use of AI and autonomy
Tags: Military Sciences, Conference Reports, Defence Policy, TechnologyPrevent needs reform but accusations that it is little more than an intelligence gathering programme are simplistic and inaccurate.
Tags: Domestic Security, Intelligence, EuropeMargaret Gilmore
The threat level to the UK from international terrorism has been reduced from ‘severe’ to ‘substantial’: the lowest it has been for more than four years. The move suggests there is cautious confidence within the security agencies.
Tags: Terrorism, UK, Domestic Security, Intelligence, Terrorism, EuropeThe UK’s new Cyber Security Strategy outlines governmental response to these new threats: Britain will work closely with international networks to identify and prosecute a new brand of ‘e-criminal’.
Tags: Information, TechnologyTechnological advances are making computer simulations a credible alternative to costly field exercises and live firings – and in some cases they are preferred. With ever more realism and likeness to the battlespace, technology is replacing traditional modelling, validation and training techniques, particularly for guided weapons. Ben Toomer takes a closer look
Tags: RUSI Defence Systems, TechnologyDr Andrew James, Senior Lecturer in Science and Technology Policy and Management at Manchester Business School argues that the traditional closed model of defence innovation is broken and a new era of open innovation beckons, placing a strong emphasis on a closer relationship between government, industry, universities and non-traditional sources of research and technology
Tags: RUSI Defence Systems, Defence Management, Defence Policy, Technology, UK DefenceThe MBDA Meteor missile is a game-changing system that is on the verge of entering service. Robert Hewson reviews the weapon’s capabilities and examines its export potential
Tags: Aerospace, RUSI Defence Systems, Technology
FCAS: Is the Franco-German-Spanish Combat Air Programme Really in Trouble?
Getting the Partnership Right
Iran in the South Caucasus: Adjustment and Evolution