Presidents Message
With our Armed Forces embarked upon transformation, we of RUSI have a special responsibility to use
our experience and bring to the fore responsible views on the present status, future plans and the impact of
transformation upon our forces national and international employment capabilities. In so doing we must
not permit ourselves to be labled as ?dinosaurs?, living in an irrelevent past - else our counsel will be be
rejected out of hand. It seems to me that one option we can use is to search for fundamentals that through
the ages have characterised successful armed forces, which in recent haste may not have been given adequate
attention, and offer positive comment on these issues, either in our newsletter or in our opinions section
of our RUSI VI website. ......... Cheers, John
