Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies

According to its website the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies is the UK's leading professional forum for those concerned with national and international defence and security. Its stated purpose is to 'study, promote debate and provide options on all issues relating to national and international defence and security'. Published six times a year, the RUSI Journal is the Institute's flagship publication on national and international defence and security issues.

History

Founded in 1831 by the Duke of Wellington it is based in the centre of Whitehall. It states that "its original mission "was to study naval and military science, what Clausewitz called the art of war. It still does so." This has extende dinto areas of defence management and defense procurement. In recent years it has broadened it remit " to include all issues of defense and security, including terrorism and the ideologies which foster it."

Its special guests in recent years have included President Bush, the Prime Minister, The secretary general of NATO and the Director General of the Security Service. The chief of Defence Staff traditionally speaks at RUSI once a year.

The RUSI Council

VICE-PRESIDENTS

• Vice Admiral Sir Jeremy Blackham KCB BA
• Lt Gen The Hon Sir Thomas Boyd-Carpenter KBE
• Sir David Omand GCB:
• The Lord Peter (Keith) Levene of Portsoken KBE
• Admiral of the Fleet Sir Julian Oswald GCB
• Sir David Veness CBE QPM
• His Grace the Duke of Westminster KG OBE TD DL
• Mr John Weston CBE former CEO of BAe Systems and Chairman of iSoft plc responsible for the disastrous NHS IT contract.

Elected

• Sir Paul Lever KCMG - Chairman
• Ms Margaret Aldred
• Captain Simon Ancona Royal Navy
• Professor Roy Anderson FRS - Ex-officio
• Général d'Armée Henri Bentégeat - Ex-officio - Honorary
• Lieutenant General Sir Robert Fulton KBE - Ex-officio
• Air Marshal The Lord Garden KCB FRUSI
• The Rt Hon Bruce George MP
• Mr Nik Gowing
• General Sir Timothy Granville-Chapman KCB CBE ADC Gen - Vice Chairman
• Mr John Howe CB OBE
• Lieutenant General Sir John Kiszely KCB MC - Ex-officio
• Dr Jamie MacIntosh
• The Hon Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller DCB - Ex-officio
• Ms Susanna Mason
• Ms Cornelia Meyer
• General Richard Myers USAF - Ex-officio - Honorary
• Dame Pauline Neville-Jones DCMG
• Mr Edward Oakden - Ex-officio
• General Sir Kevin O'Donoghue KCB CBE - Ex-officio
• Sir David Omand GCB
• General Wolfgang Schneidehan - Ex-officio - Honorary
• Mr Julian Scopes
• Mr Andrew Sleigh
• The Hon Nicholas Soames MP
• Sir Peter Spencer KCB - Ex-officio
• Air Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup KGB AFC FRAeS FIMgt RAF
• Mr Ian Stopps CBE
• Professor Hew Strachan
• Dr Ian Thomas
• Richard Norton-Taylor from 2006

Staff

• Chris Pope Head of intelligence
• Rear Admiral Richard Cobbold Director until summer 2007
• Michael Clarke from September 2007
• Dr Jonathan Eyal Director, International Security Studies

Associate Fellows

Dr. Valur Ingimundarson Associate Fellow | Prof. Keith Hayward Associate Fellow | Mark Joyce Americas Fellow | Amyas Godfrey Associate Fellow | Michael Rance Associate Fellow | Kenneth W Allen Associate Fellow | Christopher Boucek | Humphry Crum Ewing Associate Fellow | Ken Freeman Associate Fellow | M J Gohel Associate Fellow | Ellie Goldsworthy | John Hughes-Wilson Associate Fellow | Tony Hulton Associate Fellow | Dr. Irina Isakova Associate Fellow | George Joffé Associate Fellow | Dr. James Ker-Lindsay Associate Fellow | David Kirkpatrick Associate Fellow | Dr Paul Latawski Associate Fellow | Jon Marks | Major General (Retd) Graham Messervy-Whiting CBE Associate Fellow

Contact

Website: http://www.rusi.org/
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Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/RUSI_org
Newsletter: http://my.rusi.org/newsletter