Last year I highlighted a particularly depressing and lightweight evidence session held by the Defence Select Committee on national security and resilience....
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.
National Security: Too complex for columnists?
Like you I am eagerly awaiting HMG's national security strategy update set for this Thursday and next week's IPPR report on national security.* Both...
The US Navy’s answer to General Petraeus
Admiral James G. Stavridis PhD will soon take up his new post as commander of U.S. European Command and NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe. In an...
Purple Intelligence
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbgQ1V2BLEs[/youtube]
Obama Beach?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-RNqD-gO9w[/youtube]
Kilcullen: Drone strikes make Af-Pak strategy harder, not easier.
Last week Demos hosted David Kilcullen, the counter-insurgency guru and former adviser to General Petraeus in Iraq. In his speech (audio available soon) he...
SOCA: Disappointment all round
SOCA's recent claim (see Alex's post ) that the world cocaine market is in retreat is looking more and more like a failed attempt to distract us from the news...
Lego: It’s torture
Once upon a time Dad could only buy junior the Playmobil Security Check Point (btw - read loosnut's review) but now the creative Legofesto has gone one step...
Shhh… don’t tell anyone (hopefully they won’t notice)
Obama has apologised, so too have officials. It's still not clear why US agencies acceded to an FAA request to keep details about the photo op in which a...
UK Defence: A crisis of leadership & strategy
On Monday I spoke at the IPPR's conference on The National Security Strategy: One Year On. The organisers and the Cabinet Office team would, I hope, have been...
#Swineflu: Networked Comms
In Resilient Nation (pdf) I suggest that the main concern with how government's approach risk communication is not always what they say but how they say it....
National Security ’09: On your marks, get set…
More trees than the Amazon rainforest are going to have to be chopped down in the next few months to keep up with the rash of reports set to be launched this...
The self-resilient society
In a brittle society, we need radical action to build a “Resilient Nation” – so argues a new pamphlet for Demos, by Charlie Edwards.
Berlusconi: His greatest gaffes*
He's done it again. Berlusconi's gaffe's just keep on coming. His latest comes as he went on a walkabout in the Abruzzo earthquake zone. Turning to one...
Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world
Nassim Nicholas Taleb has a comment piece in today's FT outlining 10 principles that might bring 'economic life closer to our biological environment: smaller...
MEPs signing on for their daily allowance. And then leaving.
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The Downing Street hand-shake
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K68THqDqPKc[/youtube]
Video reveals police attack on man who died at G20 protest
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19h-0ejKA6I[/youtube]
The Italian Earthquake
The L'Aquilan earthquake is a huge tragedy and it looks like the death toll may rise further as the emergency services continue their search among the rubble....
The Hollowmen: Leaked ABC Funding Submission
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY4r0Co__R8[/youtube]
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