WORLD DEFENCE SYSTEMS ISSUE FOUR A Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies Publication Edited by Rear Admiral Richard Cobbold CB, FRAeS - Director of RUSI

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FOREWORD
Dr Javier Solana, High Representative of the EU for the Common Foreign and Security Policy

INTRODUCTION
Rear Admiral Richard Cobbold, Director, Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies

MY JOB
Interview with Björn von Sydow, Swedish Defence Minister

COMMON EUROPEAN SECURITY AND DEFENCE POLICY

• Europe’s defence dilemma
  Sir Michael Alexander, Chairman of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies and Air Marshall Sir Timothy Garden
• European Security and Defence Policy and the Stability of Europe
  Henry Zipper de Fabiani, Deputy Director, Strategic Affairs, Ministre de la Defence
• The Common European Security and Defence Policy
  Lieutenant General Dr Klaus Olshausen, German Military Representative to the Military Committee, NATO, to the Western European Union and European Union
• Europe’s uncertain trumpet
  Michael Stüermer, Professor of History, 1988-1998 Director Stiftung Wissenschaft and Politik. Research Institute for International Affairs, Ebenhausen/Germany. Columist for DIE WELT
• The meaning of European defence for Finland and the Northern region
  Her Excellency Alyson J K Bailes, British Ambassador to Finland
• Finland – allied for security, non-allied for defence
  Vice Admiral Juhani Kaskeala, Director General (Defence Policy), Ministry of Defence, Finland
• The Ins and Outs of ESDP: the question of participation
  Jiri Šedivý, Director, Instutute of International Relations, Prague, Czech Republic
• European Defence Initiatives: a European defence company perspective
  Bernard Rétat, Vice Chairman of Thales

NATO’S DEFENCE CAPABILITY INITIATIVES

• NATO – DCI and ESDI: The right forces, at the right time, in the right place
  Admiral Guido Venturoni, Chairman of the Military Committee, NATO Headquarters
• Reorientation of the German Armed Forces – a chance to promote Defence Capabilities Initiative and European Headline Goal
  General Harld Kujat, Chief of Defence Staff, Germany
• NATO’s conventional defence deficiencies: looking through a defence procurement lens
  Robert G Bell, NATO Assistant Secretary General for Defence Support
• The Defence Capabilities Initiative: the UK perspective
  Vice Admiral Sir Jeremy Blackham, Deputy Chief to Defence Staff (Equipment Capability), Ministry of Defence
• Thoughts on European deficiencies
  Paul-Ivan de Saint Germain, Ingénieur Général Hors Classe de l’armement, Directeur de la Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique, Paris
• Industry and the DCI
  Derek Marshall, Assistant Secretary to the UK Defence Industry Council (DIC) and Secretary to the UK Delegation to the NATO Industrial Advisory Group (NIAG) and European Defence Industries Group (EDIG)

SYNTHETIC ENVIRONMENTS

• War and wargaming in the information age
  Vice Admiral Arthur K Cebrowski, US Navy, President, Naval War College and Dr Kenneth Watman, Director, Wargaming Department, Center for Naval Warfare Studies, Naval War College
• Modelling and Simulation activities and trends in French Defence
  Col (armament) Alain Dunaud, Readiness Architect Forces Systems Architecture Department, Directorate for Force Systems and Prospective Analysis, Délégation générale pour l’armement
• The way ahead – combining the best of synthetic environments and eLearning
  Pete Swan, CAE Military Simulation and Training
• Developments in the use of synthetic environments for training the UK’s land forces
  Neil McCabe, Team Leader, JBTSE IPT, Defence Procurement Agency, UK MOD

DEFENCE MANAGEMENT

• Public Private Partnerships in the MOD
  Sir Roger Jackling, Second Permanent Under Secretary for Defence, Ministry of Defence
• The Defence Logistics Organisation - transforming Logistic Support to the Armed Forces
  John Oughton, Deputy Chief of Defence Logistics, Ministry of Defence
• UK Defence R&D Policy
  Professor Keith Hartley, Co-Director, Lancaster and York Defence Research Institute, Centre for DefenceEconomics, University of York
• A joint approach between the Ministry of Defence and the Private Sector – charting the developments and the journey towards true partnerships
  Major General John Stokoe, Managing Director of Amey Defence
• Defence in the ‘E’ world
  Simon Patten, General Manager, BT Defence
• Defence and information management
  Rick Peacock-Edwards, Chris Dawson, Barrie Pope and edited by Dr Mike Steeden, President and Managing Director, Computing Devices Company Ltd

‘WARS IN OUR TIME’ – A SURVEY OF CONFLICTS

• Wars in our time – a survey of recent and continuing conflicts
  General Sir Rupert Smith, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe, SHAPE Headquarters
• An assessment of the situation in Kosovo – a Commander’s perspective
  Lieutenant General Carlo Cabigiosu of the Italian Army, former commander of KFOR
• Internal conflict in the Philippines: Moro secessionism in Mindanao
  Dr Carolina G Hernandez, President, Institute for Strategic and Development Studies, Philippines
• New security challenges on the Korean Peninsula
  Professor Soonam Kim, Visiting Fellow at the Centre For International Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science, Korea National Defence University, Seoul
• Expeditionary Operations: Sierra Leone – Lessons for the future
  Major General David Richards, Chief of Staff of the ACE Rapid Reaction Corps, formerly Chief of Joint Force Operations at Permanent Joint Headquarters, Northwood

INDIA – ‘SLEEPING GIANT’

• Reflection from India on Asian security
  Vice Admiral Madanjit Singh, OSD to the Chief of Naval Staff, Naval Headquarters, New Dehli
• Future development of the Indian Armed Forces
  Lietenant General V K Singh, PVSM (Retd), former Director General of Military Operations of the Indian Army. Member of the United Services Institution of India

‘EQUIPING THE MEDICS’ – OPERATING IN THE FIELD

• Defence Medical Services – Rorke’s Drift to the Horizon
  Rear Admiral Chris Stanford, Chief of Staff to the Surgeon General and Head of the Medical Implementation Team, Ministry of Defence
• Stretcher-case of walking wounded? An assessment of the state of the Defence Medical Services
  Rt Hon Bruce George MP, Chairman of the House of Commons Defence Committee and Carol Oxborough, Second Clerk of the Committee

DEFENCE SYSTEMS DISPOSAL

• Disposal - the neglected end of procurement. The role of the Disposal Services Agency
  Sym Taylor, Chief Executive of the Disposal Services Agency
• THE JOINT NBC REGIMENT
• Containing the NBC threat – the UK Joint NBC Regiment
  Lieutenant Colonel Chris Deverell, Commanding Officer of the Joint NBC Regiment, with a postcript by Group Captain Graham Stacey, Assistant Director NBC, Directorate of Joint Warefare, Ministry of Defence

LAND SYSTEMS

• Consolidation trends in the European land systems sector
  Dr Jeffrey Bradford, former Arthur D Little Consultant and Mike Price, former Head of Arthur D Little’s UK Strategy Practice and senior European defence industry specialist

 

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