The Defence Academy Publications Programme
Since it was established in 2002, the Defence Academy has sought to stimulate ideas and debate on the rapidly changing security environment in which we find ourselves today, and the responses that this should elicit from the Armed Forces.
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The launch of the Academy’s publications programme is a milestone in this process, signalling a new stage in the development of the Academy itself.
The publications programme, which has been developed and is run by the Advanced Research and Assessment Group, is designed to promote research interests, to keep the Academy’s educational curricula “at the cutting edge”, and provide a focus for the UK’s strategic studies community as a whole. It will address not only narrow defence issues but all aspects of national and international security in its widest sense.
The programme invites contributions from all sectors of the security community and in many forms – a short pithy article on hot topics to extensive, detailed thought-provoking pieces of longer term interest. But they will all share in common a vivid relevance to the problems of today and tomorrow and how we might tackle them, in partnership with other Government departments and agencies, with the NGOs and academic worlds, and with private companies as appropriate.