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| Proceedings of the Royal United Services Institute | |
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| Title | Proceedings of the Royal United Services Institute |
| Discipline | Defence studies; security studies; strategic studies |
| Abbreviation | Proc. RUSI |
| Publisher | Royal United Services Institute |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Frequency | Monthly (historically varied) |
| History | 1857–present |
Proceedings of the Royal United Services Institute is a long-running British professional periodical associated with the Royal United Services Institute that publishes essays and analysis on Crimean War, Anglo-Zulu War, Second Boer War, First World War, and Second World War era lessons alongside contemporary commentary on Cold War, Falklands War, Gulf War, War in Afghanistan (2001–2021), and Iraq War. The journal has featured contributions touching on institutions such as the War Office, Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom), Admiralty, British Army, and Royal Navy, and on individuals including Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Horatio Nelson, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Basil Liddell Hart, and T. E. Lawrence.
The periodical traces origins to mid-19th century reform debates triggered by the Crimean War and the work of figures like Florence Nightingale, Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea, and William Howard Russell, while institutional patrons included the Prince Consort and later royal patrons associated with the House of Windsor. Early nineteenth- and twentieth-century editions engaged with campaigns such as the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the Mahdist War, and the Boer Wars, and responded to doctrinal shifts after the Battle of Waterloo and the rise of theorists such as Carl von Clausewitz, Antoine-Henri Jomini, and John A. Warden III. During the First World War and Second World War issues provided analysis alongside input from officers tied to the Staff College, Camberley, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Naval War College (United States), and foreign services including the French Army, German Empire, Imperial Japanese Army, and Soviet Union.
Editorial leadership historically included serving and retired officers from British Army, Royal Air Force, and Royal Navy, scholars from King's College London, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, and research fellows linked to institutions like the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Chatham House, and the Centre for Strategic and International Studies. The journal's format mirrors professional reviews such as Jane's Defence Weekly and Foreign Affairs with book reviews, campaign analyses, order-of-battle studies and debates referencing courts-martial like the Magna Carta era military jurisprudence and post-war commissions including the Bevin–Molotov talks and Versailles Treaty implications. Publication cadence shifted across decades from quarterly to monthly schedules under printers in London, with indexing in bibliographies aligned with libraries such as the British Library and citation services used by the Royal United Services Institute membership.
Proceedings covers operational analysis of campaigns including Somme Offensive, Operation Overlord, Battle of Midway, and Operation Desert Storm, technical pieces on platforms like HMS Dreadnought, Spitfire, F-16 Fighting Falcon, and Challenger 2, and policy studies engaging with doctrines shaped by the Yalta Conference, Treaty of Versailles, North Atlantic Treaty, and debates involving actors such as NATO, Warsaw Pact, United Nations, and European Union. The journal publishes on intelligence matters referencing organisations such as MI5, MI6, Central Intelligence Agency, KGB, and Bundesnachrichtendienst, and on logistics linking to histories of the Suez Crisis, Berlin Airlift, Operation Market Garden, and Amphibious warfare campaigns.
Contributors have included statesmen and strategists like Winston Churchill, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (historical analyses referencing his campaigns), David Lloyd George, Harold Macmillan, and scholars such as Julian Corbett, Sir Michael Howard, Sir Lawrence Freedman, Sir Michael Rose, Bernard Brodie, and Edward Luttwak. Technical and doctrinal essays came from officers tied to admiralty and the General Staff, and from foreign figures connected to Georgy Zhukov, Erwin Rommel, Isoroku Yamamoto, and Dwight D. Eisenhower analyses. Landmark articles debated nuclear strategy vis-à-vis thinkers like Hyman G. Rickover and Albert Einstein-adjacent policy circles, and addressed counterinsurgency lessons citing the Malayan Emergency, Algerian War, Vietnam War, and Northern Ireland conflict.
The periodical has influenced publications and institutions including International Institute for Strategic Studies reports, doctrine discussion at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, curricula at King's College London Department of War Studies, and policy debates within the Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom), Whitehall think tanks, and allied staffs in Washington, D.C., Paris, Berlin, Moscow, and Tokyo. Reviews in journals such as Survival (journal), Journal of Strategic Studies, and commentary from figures like Henry Kissinger and John Mearsheimer reflect its role in shaping debates on force structure, deterrence, and alliance management during crises like the Suez Crisis, Cuban Missile Crisis, and post-Cold War interventions.
Back issues and archives have been conserved in repositories including the British Library, National Archives (United Kingdom), and specialized collections at Imperial War Museums and university libraries at King's College London, University of Oxford Bodleian Library, and Cambridge University Library. Recent efforts digitised runs overlapping with projects by Google Books, national digitisation programmes in United Kingdom, and partnerships mirroring work done by the Library of Congress and Europeana to improve access for researchers studying conflicts like the Crimean War, Napoleonic Wars, Cold War, and twentieth-century campaigns.
Category:Military journals Category:United Kingdom publications