Recently added articles from RUSI Journal:
Foreword
Apr 01, 2008; ... The debate stirred by Gwyn Prins's and Lord Salisbury's article in the last issue of the Journal pushed RUSI to the centre of a national discussion on multiculturalism. That we found ourselves in such a position reflects, in part, how far the discourse on security during this decade has widened ...
RUSI NEWS
Apr 01, 2008; ... RUSI Strategic Plan 2008-2013 RUSI's Strategic Plan, published in March, aims to identify the Institute's objectives and chart its direction for the next five years. The future success of RUSI depends on a clear strategy for building on the traditions of the past and our ...
Letters
Apr 01, 2008; ... General Laycock SIR, Professor Donat Gallagher is, of course, perfectly entitled to his passionately held opinions of the last fifteen years, but what I object to most are his quotations out of context, his exaggerations and his shameless distortions of what I wrote at the time (RUSI ...
Engaging British Muslim Communities in Counter-Terrorism Strategies
Apr 01, 2008; ... Following the attacks in London in July 2005, seven working groups were set up by the Home Office under the banner of 'Preventing Extremism Together' (PET) to develop practical recommendations for tackling violent extremism.' These were conveyed to the then Home Office Minister, Hazel ...
Multiculturalism after 7/7: A Scapegoat or a Hope for the Future?
Apr 01, 2008; ... In the February 2008 issue of the RUSI Journal, Gwyn Prins and Robert Salisbury articulated the consensus of a high ranking seminar which suggested that 'flabby and bogus strategic thinking' is a fundamental source of danger to the security of the United Kingdom. Amongst the various views ...
Iraq and its Borders: The Role of Barriers in Counter-Insurgency
Apr 01, 2008; ... Introduction Iraq has over 2,200 miles of border, of which almost half is with Iran and 375 miles is with Syria. For any country facing both transnational insurgencies and organised crime, porous borders create a strategic problem. As long as its borders remain open, insurgents can move ...
The US 'Surge' as a Collaborative Corrective for Iraq
Apr 01, 2008; ... If you intervene in a country because you feel its current condition is a security threat, how do you subsequently transition it to a point whereby you feel it safe to leave? US President George W Bush answered this question concerning the US intervention in Iraq by announcing: Our strategy can ...
Iraq 2007 - Moving Beyond Counter-Insurgency Doctrine: A First-hand Perspective
Apr 01, 2008; ... When Lieutenant General Raymond Odierno arrived in Baghdad at the end of 2006 to take up his post as Commanding General of Multi-National Corps Iraq, The country appeared to be heading towards all out civil war; tens of thousands of Iraqis had fled their homes; Baghdad had degenerated into ...
Peace Operations and Exit
Apr 01, 2008; ... Even before the start of the US presidential primaries, the American debate about intervention in Iraq had become increasingly characterised by different demands and proposals for exit strategies. Such calls for exit from 'peace operations' are not new: similar calls were made during the ...
UK Effects-Based Planning and Centre of Gravity Analysis: An Increasingly Dysfunctional Relationship?
Apr 01, 2008; ... With the imminent release (some time in 2008) of a series of revised British military doctrine publications that place an Effects-Based Approach at the heart of doctrinal development, it has become clear that the debate within the defence policy community with regard to the utility of ...
Pakistan's Waziristan Problem
Apr 01, 2008; ... The traditional tribal structures of the Pashtuns, a people whose traditional lands span modern-day Afghanistan and Pakistan, are unusual and even contradictory. While strictly egalitarian in its application of tribal laws and customs, there is an equally strict class structure which only ...
New Containment Policy: A Grand Strategy for the Twenty-first Century?
Apr 01, 2008; ... We are witnessing a worldwide expansion of war and violence, which should be countered by a new policy of containment. George Kennan, architect of the original theory, emphasised as early as 1987 that we needed 'a wider concept of what containment means ... a concept, in other words, more ...
War and Transformation
Apr 01, 2008; ... For the past fifteen years, like other Western countries, France has consistently adapted its force structure, its doctrine and its equipment in search of greater effectiveness. Since the president of the Republic decided to fully professionalise its armed forces in 1996, the French military has ...
Maximising the Potential of UK Maritime Forces in Peacetime: 'A Force for Good'
Apr 01, 2008; ... The post-Cold War world has seen the re-emergence of the historical norm of dispute and conflict in many areas of the world. It has enabled the growth of globalisation at an unprecedented rate, creating new pressures on the ownership of and access to natural resources as new major economies ...
Nuclear History Note: US Atomic Demolition Munitions 1954-1989
Apr 01, 2008; ... Perhaps the least openly-discussed nuclear weapons produced during the Cold War were atomic demolition munitions (ADMs). Often called nuclear land mines, ADMs were designed to be exploded in the forward battle area to delay or channel enemy forces. In essence, they were simply nuclear warheads ...
British Private Armies in the Middle East? The Arab Legion and the Trans-Jordan Frontier Force, 1920-56
Apr 01, 2008; ... The use of contract British soldiers to support various conservative Gulf Arab states in the decades after the 1950s is a subject that has been relatively well documented in the literature.1 The purpose of this essay is to look at an earlier and more dramatic Britishsponsored mercenary army, one ...
A Good War: Wartime Officers Who Rose to Command Level in the First World War
Apr 01, 2008; ... During the four and a quarter years of the First World War, more than fifty men commissioned as officers in the British Army after the outbreak of hostilities were promoted four grades to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, the majority of them to command frontline battalions in action. At least ...
Costing the Iraq Conflict
Apr 01, 2008; ... Costing the Iraq Conflict The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict By Joseph EStiglitz and Linda Bilmes £20,311 pages Alien Lane, Penguin Books, 2008 ISBN: 1846141281 Wars are costly and the Iraq conflict is no exception. This is a fascinating, important and ...
Unprepared
Apr 01, 2008; ... Unprepared The Echo of Battle - The Army's Way of War By Brian McAllister Linn 320 pages, $27.95 Harvard University Press, 2007 ISBN: 0674026519 Defence and International Security Our whole recent experience, then, our present duties and future prospects all point to the idea ...
Identifying the Conceptual Basis for Autonomous Systems
Apr 01, 2008; ... Identifying the Conceptual Basis for Autonomous Systems Guilty Robots, Happy Dogs: The Question of Alien Minds By David McFarland £16.99, 256 pages Oxford University Press, 2008 ISBN: 019921929X David McFarland was recently Professor of Biological Robotics at the University of the West ...