This report from UK think tank RUSI looks at a national security-based model that draws on characteristics of three other national security policing responses. In 2022, escalating levels of fraud and the spotlight placed on the UK’s role in Russia-related money laundering have given rise to a growing recognition of economic crime as a national...

This report from UK think tank RUSI looks at how communities in Kenya have responded to the request of increasing reporting of ‘suspicious activities’. This paper empirically explores how communities have responded to the request of increasing reporting of ‘suspicious activities’. More specifically, it explores to what extent community members of Garissa and Lamu counties...

This report from UK think tank RUSI looks at North Korea's involvement in aspects of the illegal wildlife trade to generate foreign currency. The North Korean government has a long history of involvement in illicit activities to generate foreign currency, which it uses to fund the regime elite and its weapons proliferation programmes, currently subject...

This report from UK think tank RUSI looks at the UK’s short-to-medium investments in Joint All-Domain Operations (JADO)-type capabilities. With limited resources and a host of urgent force modernisation and regeneration requirements, the UK’s short-to-medium investments in multidomain integration/Joint All-Domain Operations (JADO)-type capabilities will need to be incremental.

This report from UK think tank RUSI looks at the national and international progress on Tempest on five fronts. The Tempest programme, within the envisaged Future Combat Air System (FCAS), is of multi-dimensional importance, involving British military capability, advanced technology development, operational independence, international standing and relationships, economic prosperity and long-term defence industrial capability. Four...

This report from UK think tank RUSI looks at Moscow’s approach to the Black Sea region and Georgia’s role within Russian strategic thinking. Russia's War against Ukraine has fundamentally destabilised the Black Sea region and caused greater insecurity among the littoral states. The militarisation of the Black Sea as well as Russia’s ambitions to strengthen...

This report from UK think tank RUSI looks at how further Western support is needed to counter Moscow's approach to the air war. Further Western support is needed to ensure that Kyiv can counter Moscow's updated approach to the air war in Ukraine.

This report from UK think tank RUSI looks at how to improve collating, assessing and strengthening efforts in countering extremism. This Occasional Paper is part of RUSI’s Prevention Project, a multi-year effort to collate, assess and strengthen the existing knowledge base for preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) interventions across different thematic and geographic areas....

This report from UK think tank RUSI looks at the significant challenges facing UK Defence Support. Defence Support is facing significant challenges. These include making good some considerable legacy support issues, implementing lessons identified from the government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, and tackling outcomes from the Integrated Review. If left unaddressed, these problems will...

This report from UK think tank RUSI looks at the shortfalls in NATO's current air and missile defence system in light of future plans. This Occasional Paper aims to contribute to the nascent discussion on NATO’s future air and missile defence system by discussing the shortfalls in its current approach, and identifies the key lines...