RUSI Journal

Latvia is one of several European countries where debates on integrating women in the armed forces is an important dimension of contemporary approaches to conscription.

Lessons from counterterrorism can help to analyse and respond to climate security risks and threats.

Militaries must prepare to work in a world affected by climate change to retain both battlefield advantage and moral legitimacy.

Our assumptions about our own rationality and the adversary’s illogically affect our ability to conduct sound analysis and thus undermine effective policymaking.

Assumptions about creating a ‘home away from home’ for those on overseas deployments can undermine operational efficiency and misrepresent the attitudes of those deployed.

Using ‘meritocracy’ as a short-hand for a fair and merit-based system risks obscuring that it remains a important goal rather than the status quo.

Ongoing experience in the war in Ukraine provides NATO with useful examples of how resistance networks can contribute to defence strategy.