Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies
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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.
RUSI Governing Bodies
Patron
Her Majesty the Queen[2]
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.
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[3]
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 $$$ |
