Adversarial Studies Videos
This initiative aims to enable a better understanding of competitors and challengers in the military space.
The aim is to inform and assist those seeking to better understand potential adversaries.
Primarily through presentations from RUSI Military Sciences experts, this project aims to amalgamate the research into more targeted and digestible packages that military personnel may find useful.
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Adversarial Studies Seminars
The project is part of RUSI’s Profession of Arms Programme run by the Military Sciences research group.
Episode 23: Assessing the Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s Personnel
78 Minute Watch
View onlineEpisode 22: Exploring the Sino-Russian Relationship
75 Minute Watch
View onlineEpisode 21: Western Technology at the Heart of Russia's Military Machine
60 Minute Watch
View onlineEpisode 20: Threat based planning: an optimal framework for optimising against adversaries?
60 Minute Watch
View onlineEpisode 19: How the War in Ukraine is Evolving
60 Minute Watch
View onlineEpisode 18: The War in Ukraine and Taiwan’s Defensive Planning
40 Minute Watch
View onlineEpisode 17: Analysing the Performance of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine
60 Minute Watch
View onlineEpisode 16: The 21st Century Urban Battlespace
60 Minute Watch
View onlineEpisode 15: The Russian Army’s Approach to Warfare
32 Minute Watch
View onlineEpisode 14: Innovation and Great Power Competition
32 Minute Watch
View onlineEpisode 13: Granularity in the Grey Zone: Distinct Adversary Approaches to Sub-Threshold Competition
37 Minute Watch
View onlineEpisode 12: The Rise of China’s Navy in the Indo-Pacific: Challenges and Response Options
28 Minute Watch
View onlineEpisode 11: Russian Strategic Thinking and the Kremlin’s Approach to Coercion
22 Minute Watch
View onlineEpisode 10: Forceful Persuasion: The Psychology of Convincing an Opponent They Are Beaten
32 Minute Watch
View onlineEpisode 9: Living with Uncertainty: The Assumptions Underpinning Chinese Nuclear Strategy
18 Minute Watch
View onlineEpisode 8: Countering Malign Information Operations: The Lithuanian Experience
35 Minute Watch
View onlineEpisode 7: Carried Over the Threshold: Hybrid Tactics and Responses
27 Minute Watch
View onlineEpisode 6: The Information Domain Threat Environment
19 Minute Watch
View onlineEpisode 5: Deterrence on NATO’s Eastern Flank: The Challenge of IAMD
23 Minute Watch
View onlineEpisode 4: Anti-satellite Weapons
20 Minute Watch
View onlineEpisode 3: Integrated Coercion: The Case of China
37 Minute Watch
View onlineEpisode 2: Iranian Command and Control for Proxy Warfare
28 Minute Watch
View onlineEpisode 1: Russian and Chinese Air Defences
22 Minute Watch
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