New study gives British-government security efforts an F – for “flabby”
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London’s Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a “think tank at the heart of Britain’s defense and security establishment,” has just issued the government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown a report card for its handling of national-security affairs, and the grade it received is shameful. RUSI, founded in 1831 to study naval and military science and what Clausewitz called the “art of war,” argues in the latest issue of its journal that the Brown government needs to change what the think tank calls its “flabby and bogus strategic thinking.” RUSI describes that mindset as “a fundamental source of damage to Britain’s security.” In a just-published article in its journal, RUSI has “concluded that Britain’s ‘misplaced deference to multiculturalism’ [is] undermining the fight against extremists, and that military and security services [are] having to fight threats at home and abroad.” (Guardian)
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