Recording: RUSI-École de Guerre Christmas Debate 2024
3 days ago · Watch our annual Christmas debate between RUSI experts and officers from École de Guerre. RUSI and France’s École de Guerre have collaborated over the past seven years, aiming to apply intellectual rigour in answering the most critical questions facing militaries today. RUSI’s Military ...
Kyiv 'claims it killed senior Russian general' in Moscow
5 days ago · By assassinating Russia's top military officials, Ukraine is trying to demoralise the people on which the war depends, security analyst Mark Galeotti has said. Kyiv's security service is believed to be behind this morning's bomb attack in Moscow that claimed the life of Igor Kirillov, Russia's head of nuclear, biological and chemical defence forces. Mr Galeotti, a senior …
Three years of economic sanctions | Royal United Services ...
4 days ago · Three years have passed since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Are the sanctions imposed by the international community against Russia working? Tom Keating, Director of the Centre for Financial Security at the Royal Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI) in the United Kingdom, likens sanctions to 'a puncture from which air gradually …
Without a Strong Volunteer Reserve, the UK Military Cannot ...
2 days ago · The UK must embrace reserve forces to build affordable military mass, attract specialist talent, and meet defence needs in an era of constrained budgets. With significant military demands on a stretched budget, now is the time for Defence to look to reserve forces to build credible affordable mass ...
Chief of Defence Intelligence Speaks at RUSI on the Nature of ...
3 days ago · Adrian Bird, Chief of Defence Intelligence at the UK’s Ministry of Defence, addressed an audience of RUSI members and the press at 61 Whitehall. Mr Bird reflected on the achievements and challenges that have shaped the organisation's history over its 60-year history, as well as its vital role in ...
News & Comment - Royal United Services Institute
5 days ago · The "basic state of affairs is that it is to a greater or lesser extent still being debated within [the three next generation programmes] whether the central fighter is to be piloted or not," said Justin Bronk, senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute.
Money Talks: Financially Rewarding Economic Crime ...
4 days ago · Economic crime has been estimated to cost the UK a staggering £350 billion annually, dwarfing many other threats to national security. UK businesses are experiencing supply chain and procurement fraud at double the global average, despite firms spending £34.5 billion on financial crime compliance in 2023 – a sum roughly two-thirds of the UK’s entire defence budget.