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144180
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Significant new investment in defence and security announced in the 2015 National Security Strategy and Strategic Defence and Security Review has sent positive signals about the future of the UK’s role in the world. However, argues Malcolm Chalmers, further reform and flexibility will be needed if the UK is to remain an important security player in the international arena.
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129754
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Strategy is often about choices and those made in the 2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review will have significant implications for the future of UK defence and wider national security. The US has already made profound choices in this regard: it is rebalancing to East Asia. The implications for the UK, both as a US partner and a major European military power, include the possibility of deeper engagement with the Middle East and North Africa. Doug Stokes and Paul Newton examine the UK's nascent 'east of Suez' initiative, its key interests as well as the geopolitical drivers, dangers and opportunities involved. As the US seeks greater burden-sharing from its European allies, should the UK bridge the Gulf?
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153061
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At NATO’s 2014 Wales Summit, the UK and Germany unveiled two new initiatives for European defence cooperation, known, respectively, as the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) and the Framework Nations Concept (FNC). Both were the result of economic pressures and the need to exercise intra-alliance leadership, but they represented very different approaches to cooperation. The JEF was to be a UK-led contingency force for short-notice operations, selectively incorporating forces from allies and partners. The FNC sought to coordinate capability development between groups of allies, centred on larger framework nations, to develop coherent capability-clusters available to meet NATO’s force requirements. The common denominator and novelty of the initiatives was the building of forces and capabilities multinationally by having major states act as framework nations for groups of smaller allies. The UK and Germany have ownership and continue to provide leadership to these initiatives. This is one key reason why they continue to evolve to accommodate changing circumstances and are likely to endure.
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139206
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Currently, “macro” systems thinking is arguably most evident in intelligence studies. Appearing especially apparent are characterisations of different intelligence architectures, strongly associated with grander-ranging national or central intelligence systems and their associated machinery, even being bounded as intelligence communities. Following on from noteworthy US defence sector developments, which have demonstrable relevance both to and for closely overlapping contemporary intelligence work, more “micro” systems thinking – namely involving intelligence-related “System of Systems” (“SoS”) concepts – is increasingly emergent. For helping to facilitate and better understand contemporary intelligence innovation, SoS constructs and their dynamics are now deserving of being further examined and refined. This includes as they pertain to the conduct of several multifunctional and special operations occurring across the world during an overall era of globalised strategic risk, and as the study and practice of intelligence aims towards further extension and adaptive transformation.
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154461
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This article provides the framework for the contributions to this special issue. It first puts the theme into context and outlines the main issues that justify further analytical engagement with European Union (EU)–North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) relations to the extent we propose here. We then provide some historical background to frame the discussion, and in doing so also outline the current state of interaction between the EU and NATO. We then briefly contextualise the changing strategic environment shaping the relationship, including recent proposals to implement their declared “strategic partnership”. This introduction then presents an overview of the existing literature to set the stage for a renewed look at the research agenda that has emerged over the last two decades. We close with an outline of the individual contributions to this special issue, which are presented in two sections: one focusing on theoretical and conceptual approaches to the study of EU of EU–NATO relations, and one on the inter-organisational relationship in practice, followed by a concluding synopsis and outlook.
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141671
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Many have written off the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy as a lost cause. Nick Witney, on the contrary, argues that the UK should fully engage with European efforts and lead its EU partners in finding an effective policy to meet their collective defence and security needs.
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133864
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2014.
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The politics of the nineties is back upon and so is military power
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131027
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2014.
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From launching sounding rockets on the Kerala coast in the 19605, to the launch of ten satellites in one go in April 2008, Indian space scientists have indeed come a long way. In fact, this January, taking one more crucial step in space technology has further strengthened their resolve to accomplish other space-related goals. After two decades of the protracted and focussed research and developmental efforts of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) scientists, it was India's turn to celebrate the glory of its space programme on January 05, 2014, when ISRO's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-D5), powered by an indigenously developed cryogenic engine, successfully launched the GSAT- 14, a communication satellite, from Sriharikota
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133863
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2014.
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The statement that came out of the corps commanders conference on Sunday, August 31 was a short one."…the conference reviewed with serious concern, the existing political crisis and the violent turn it has taken, resulting in large scale injuries and less of life," it read. "further use of force will only aggravate that problem," it added , "… the situation should be resolved politically without wasting any time and without wasting any time and without resorting to violent means.
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154493
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The rapid expansion of the space sector with the involvement of several new commercial actors offers both challenges and opportunities for the defence and security community. Elizabeth Quintana provides an overview of recent developments in the field, from technology to regulation, as a necessary context for anyone interested in the future of space.
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ID:
129755
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2014.
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The UK Arctic Policy Framework (APF) was published in October 2013. Following on from earlier examinations of the UK's growing interest in the Arctic, Duncan Depledge and Klaus Dodds explore how the country's engagement in the region has been evaluated within the context of energy, environment, science, defence and politics. They conclude with some questions regarding the monitoring and evaluation of the APF in both the short and longer term.
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129355
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the Indian defence industry has come off age. This arduous evolution from dependency to interdependency is poised to touch the fringes of intendancy.
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