Royal United Services Institute
Think tank
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| Abbreviation | RUSI |
| Formation | 1831 |
| Founder | Arthur Wellesley |
| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom |
| Leader | Royal United Services Institute/Director |
| Type | Think tank |
| Sponsor of | Institute for Strategic Dialogue |
| Membership | Prince Edward, Marcel Chirwa, David Petraeus, William Hague, John Scarlett, James Hay, John Hutton, Paul Lever, Rory McLean, David Omand, John Weston, Arthur Charles Valerian Wellesley, Douglas Alexander, Catherine Ashton, Roger Bone, John Dowdy, Nik Gowing, Nick Houghton, Andrew Jamieson, Alison Levitt, Stephen Phipson, Ian Willis, James Arbuthnot, Jane Attwood, Menzies Campbell, Oleksandr Danylyuk, Robert Fry, Bob Keen, Sarah MacIntosh, Greg Mills, Andrew Parker, Kathryn Parsons, William Nye, Rhodri Williams, Rory Bremner, Harper Reed, David Giampaolo, Mark Fox, Michael Ridley, Mina Gerowin, Caroline Wyatt, Chris DiBona, Lowell Thomas, Chris Parson, Ralf Raddatz, Christopher Short, Patrick Chevallereau, Brian J. Edwards, Jeremy Blackham, Thomas Boyd-Carpenter, David Omand, Peter Keith Levene, Julian Oswald, David Veness, Gerald Grosvenor, John Weston, Paul Lever, Kamal Alam, Margaret Aldred, Simon Ancona, Roy Anderson, Henri Bentégeat, Robert Fulton, Lord Garden, Bruce George, Nik Gowing, Timothy Granville-Chapman, John Howe, John Kiszely, Jamie MacIntosh, Eliza Manningham-Buller, Susanna Mason, Mungo Melvin, Cornelia Meyer, Richard Myers, Pauline Neville-Jones, Edward Oakden, Kevin O'Donoghue, David Omand, Wolfgang Schneidehan, Julian Scopes, Andrew Sleigh, Nicholas Soames, Peter Spencer, Jock Stirrup, Ian Stopps, Hew Strachan, Ian Thomas, Richard Norton-Taylor, Chris Pope Richard Cobbold, Michael Clarke, Jonathan Eyal, Keith Hayward, Mark Joyce, Amyas Godfrey, Michael Rance, Kenneth W. Allen, Christopher Boucek, Humphry Crum Ewing, Ken Freeman, M. J. Gohel, Ellie Goldsworthy, John Hughes-Wilson, Tony Hulton, Irina Isakova, George Joffé, James Ker-Lindsay, David Kirkpatrick, Paul Latawski, Jon Marks, Graham Messervy-Whiting, Elizabeth Windsor, Igor Sutyagin,John Cockroft |
The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) is the oldest defence and security think tank in the world.
Official narrative
The group's stated purpose is to "study, promote debate and provide options on all issues relating to national and international defence and security".[1] 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 Arthur Wellesley 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.
Fellows
The RUSI has many interesting fellows, including many spooks, diplomats and military movers and shakers that are covered by Wikispooks.[2]