Is an outgoing National Security Adviser necessarily a "lame duck" 🦆? Our deputy director Joe Devanny explores how that phrase might apply. Something for our new National Security Studies students to think about! War Studies King's Security Studies

The UK List of Cabinet Committees was published last week. This has already generated some reporting & commentary, including re: the NSC. But one striking thing I noticed: Europe and Sci/Tech both have their own committees, outside of the NSC process. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/670cd4ef…

Responsibly disrupting cyber-enabled counterterrorism operations | This is a thoughtful Binding Hook commentary & thread from KCL_CSRG's Michael Genkin 🇮🇱🇺🇦🇬🇧, exploring the principles shaping private sector responses to discovering vulnerabilities exploited "in the wild".

The UK's National Security Council has a lowish profile, but it oversees the strategic direction of UK national security policies. Our deputy director Joe Devanny is tracking coverage of the new Labour government's approach to this important committee. War Studies King's Security Studies

Posts like this by Henry Newman (& also one he cites by Alex Thomas on the same issue) demonstrate the continuing value of this website, disseminating in-depth analysis of niche but important issues like the implications of the new UK National Security Adviser appointment.

Does the Foreign Office need a new information research department? 🌍 We asked 7 experts in today’s #BigAsk ✍️Joe Devanny, Mark Galeotti, Lord Hannay of Chiswick GCMG, Robert Johnson 🇬🇧, Charles Parton OBE, James Rogers, Grace Theodoulou #BritainsWorld britainsworld.org.uk/p/the-big-ask-…

The UK’s cross-government “China audit” is reportedly being led by the FCDO, which is the lead foreign policy department, but the Cabinet Office and specifically the NSC, might have been the more obvious choice for shepherding a cross-government approach.

Is the Starmer government using the National Security Council process? Apparently not for its cross-government China audit. Our deputy director suggests that the Cabinet Office was a better choice than FCDO to lead this review.

As well as announcing an uplift in UK defence spending, the Prime Minister today announced there will be a new national security strategy. Such strategies set the integrated framework for defence, foreign policy, and wider security and intelligence related policy decisions.

Presumably, Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy will be able to scrutinise the government's (welcome, if overdue) new plans to write a national security strategy, including clarifying if the Cabinet Office's national security team will be coordinating its production.

Two interesting Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy cyber-related evidence sessions coming up on Monday, on ransomware and offensive cyber, evidence from: Kelly Butler (@marshmclennan), Sadie Creese, Jamie MacColl, ᴛɪᴍ ꜱᴛᴇᴠᴇɴꜱ and Andrew Dwyer committees.parliament.uk/event/23343/fo…