Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies

Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies
Abbreviation	RUSI
Formation	1831
Founder	Arthur Wellesley
Headquarters	London, United Kingdom
Leader	Royal United Services Institute/Director
Type	Think tank
Member of	European Policy Centre
Sponsor of	Institute for Strategic Dialogue
Sponsored by	Carnegie Corporation, Smith Richardson Foundation
Subpage	•Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies/Fellows
Membership	•  Prince Edward •  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 •  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

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". 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.

RUSI Governing Bodies

Patron

Her Majesty the Queen

President

His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent KG, GCMG, GCVO, ADC (Prince Edward)

Senior Vice-President

General (Ret'd) David H Petraeus

Chairman

The Rt Hon the Lord Hague of Richmond (William Hague)

Vice-Chairman

Sir John Scarlett KCMG OBE

Vice-Presidents

Dr James Hay

The Rt Hon. the Lord Hutton of Furness (John Hutton)

Sir Paul Lever KCMG

Vice Admiral Rory McLean CB OBE

Professor Sir David Omand GCB

Mr John Weston CBE

Trustees

His Grace the Duke of Wellington OBE DL (Arthur Charles Valerian Wellesley)

The Rt Hon Douglas Alexander

The Rt Hon the Baroness Ashton GCMG (Catherine Ashton)

Sir Roger Bone KCMG

Mr John Dowdy

Mr Nik Gowing

The Rt Hon the Lord Hague of Richmond

General the Lord Houghton of Richmond GCB CBE ADC

Mr Andrew Jamieson

Ms Alison Levitt QC

Sir John Scarlett KCMG OBE

Mr Stephen Phipson CBE

Mr Ian Willis

ADVISORY BOARD

The Rt Hon the Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom

Ms Jane Attwood

The Rt Hon Lord Campbell of Pittenweem CH CBE QC (Menzies Campbell)

Lt Gen (Ret'd) Sir Robert Fry KCB CBE

Mr Bob Keen

Ms Sarah MacIntosh

Dr Greg Mills

Mr Andrew Parker

Ms Kathryn Parsons MBE

Mr William Nye LVO

Dr Rhodri Williams

Mr Rory Bremner FKC

Mr Harper Reed

Mr David Giampaolo

Mr Mark Fox

Mr Michael Ridley

Ms Mina Gerowin

Ms Caroline Wyatt

Mr Chris DiBona

Ex-Officio

Brigadier General Lowell Thomas

Brigadier Chris Parson

Brigadier General Ralf Raddatz

Brigadier General Christopher Short

Rear Admiral Patrick Chevallereau

Air Commodore Brian J Edwards

Fellows

The RUSI has many interesting fellows as well, including many spooks, diplomats and military movers and shakers.

Full article: Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies/Fellows

The RUSI Council 2010

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

 

Employees on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed	End	Description
Karin von Hippel	Royal United Services Institute/Director-General	30 November 2015
James Sherr	Royal United Services Institute/Director-General	1983	1985
Harry Tuzo	Chairman	1980	1983	Attended Bilderberg/1980
Richard Walton	Senior Associate Fellow	January 2016

 

Known members

32 of the 109 of the members already have pages here:

Member	Description
Kamal Alam	Fellow of the Institute for Statecraft,
James Arbuthnot	British Conservative Party politician with intelligence/deep state ties.
Catherine Ashton	A woman with zero qualification or experience of foreign affairs who, in 2009, was made 'High representative for Foreign Affairs and Security policy' in a deal which finally recognised that the position was NOT going to be given to Tony Blair
Roger Bone	Former UK diplomat who went over to the military-industrial complex as President of Boeing UK. He is also a Trustee of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).
Thomas Boyd-Carpenter
Marcel Chirwa	Malawian soldier mentioned in a file of the Integrity Initiative Leak, RUSI.
Michael Clarke	UK academic and "terror expert"
John Cockroft	UK politician and financial journalist. Board of the European Movement (UK) 1973-74. Attended 1971 Bilderberg meeting.
Oleksandr Danylyuk	Ukrainian member of the Institute for Statecraft
Bruce George	Member of the Privy Council since 2001, MICC connected MP
Nik Gowing	UK Deep state connected TV journalist
Nicholas Houghton	Senior UK soldier, House of Lords, Sandhurst
John Hughes-Wilson	Author and broadcaster specialising in military-historical and intelligence matters
John Hutton	UK Secretary of State for Defence 2008-2009
Peter Levene	Chief of Defence Procurement, then over to private banking.
Paul Lever
Sarah MacIntosh	UK diplomat, RUSI
Eliza Manningham-Buller
Mungo Melvin	Major-General and "outstanding intellectual" at the Institute for Statecraft
Pauline Neville-Jones	BBC governor, Chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee
Richard Norton-Taylor	Writer for The Guardian on defence and security matters
David Omand	A former head of GCHQ.
Julian Oswald	First Sea Lord and Chief of UK Naval Staff in the early 1990s.
Andrew Parker	Head of MI5, promoting fear of 'jihadis'.
David Petraeus	Spooky general, DCIA, Multi-Bilderberg
John Scarlett	MI6 chief 2004-2009
Nicholas Soames	UK politician and businessman.
Hew Strachan	Military historian with an active interest in the amount of UK defence spending. Institute for Statecraft advisor.
Igor Sutyagin	Russian exposed as a member of the Integrity Initiative's Inner Core cluster.
David Veness	The UK senior policeman/ "counter terrorist" who sat on the Mishcon Note.
John Weston
Elizabeth Windsor	Longest reigning monarch during her reign, during her time she befriended VIPedophiles Jimmy Saville and protected Prince Andrew. In the 2000s remarked "there are powers at work in this country about which we have no knowledge".

 

Sponsors

Event	Description
Carnegie Corporation	Established by Andrew Carnegie in 1911, with large grants especially to form the education sector. Lots of grants to "security" think tanks too.
Smith Richardson Foundation	CIA front organization that funds select projects with $$$

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