The current situation in Basra is extremely worrying. Consider the following: Local authorities in the city advise all civilians to stay at home after sunset....
Charlie Edwards
Charlie Edwards is Director of National Security and Resilience Studies at the Royal United Services Institute. Prior to RUSI he was a Research Leader at the RAND Corporation focusing on Defence and Security where he conducted research and analysis on a broad range of subject areas including: the evaluation and implementation of counter-violent extremism programmes in Europe and Africa, UK cyber strategy, European emergency management, and the role of the internet in the process of radicalisation. He has undertaken fieldwork in Iraq, Somalia, and the wider Horn of Africa region.
Mapping human destruction in the world’s oceans
A new study in the Science Journal shows human activity has left a mark on nearly every square kilometer of sea, severely compromising ecosystems in more than...
Bush, the Pentagon, and the battle over climate change
Excellent comment piece in today’s FT on how the Pentagon needs to plan for climate change. According to the authors there are five key areas in which...
Strategic myopia
Last November Alex posted about Brown’s woes inside the No.10 bunker. Sue Cameron is back today with more insights into life in Downing St. The trouble with...
Mapping migration flows
Useful map for presentations.
Ashdown and the art of strategy
Paddy Ashdown is in trenchant mood in today's FT. With fighting in Afghanistan now entering its seventh year, no agreed international strategy, public support...
Mon Dieu! Où sont les Anglais?
Mary Dejevsky is beside herself in today's Independent. Apparently the UK is no longer punching above its weight on the international stage. Cast an eye over...
Eye on the world
I've just come across Maplecroft maps. If you have a few minutes to spare, go and have a look. More than 30 different issues are already available. Some of...
AQ is on the run…
Gary Anderson from George Washington University has a good piece in the Washington Post. Al-Qaeda is losing. As he argues: The conventional wisdom is that...
Withdrawal symptons
I hope someone in Whitehall is working on a comms strategy. We are in for a bumpy ride.
A fifth cable cut?
The undersea cable conspiracy continues. A total of five cables being operated by two submarine cable operators have been damaged with a fault in each. These...
Need to know
Politicians and the media are up in arms about the bugging scandal involving a Labour MP. But, Fans of Yes, Prime Minister will remember the episode where the...
Wind farms ‘a threat to national security’
From The Times: Senior Government Official*: I want to be very clear now about what I want the public to do. There are two requests here. We need the public's...
When disaster strikes
The excellent FT Magazine has a review by Michael Skapinker of recent books on disaster and resilience. I don’t agree with the selection of books on offer (I...
Neat video
ISAF Locations
Context
He says ‘jump’. You say…
Americans have an innate ability to tell it like it is. And so I find myself listening intently to how NATO needs to meet 5 strategic challenges otherwise its...
A license to be awkward
Some of the presentations today have been excellent but have highlighted the desperate need for alternative approaches to some of the problems governments are...
Presentation by (CIA) factbook
A common theme that has run throughout all presentations at Wilton Park is the reliance on stats. Presentations have been an orgy of numbers and percentages...
Winning on wicked issues
I've got an article in this month's World Today, Chatham House's monthly magazine. It's about the UK's approach to national security. Here's a taster: British...
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