Strategy and Security Institute (SSI)

SSI Lectures

The Strategy and Security Institute hosts a programme of lectures and guest speaker events featuring leading voices from academia, government, the military and industry.

These sessions explore contemporary issues in strategy, security and international affairs, and provide opportunities for discussion and debate.

Recordings of selected SSI lectures are available via the speaker programme images below.

Full details of future talks will appear on the events page.

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Paul Mason
May 2026

 Ten Things that Need to Change in Wartime: Challenges for the Defence Readiness Bill and War Book

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Professor Ronald Krebs
December 2025

 The Age of Global Militarism: How Veneration of the Military Spread – and Why it Matters

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Colonel (Ret’d) Peter Mansoor
November 2025

The Surge: Remaking the Iraq War, 2007-2008

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Dr Keith Dear
October 2025

Implications from the AI Revolution

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Sir Lawrence Freedman
October 2025

Ukraine and the Limits of Military Strategy

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Professor Chiara Ruffa
October 2025

Norm Erosion in International Politics: Exploring the How

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Dr Robert Seeley MBE
October 2025

 The New Total War

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General Sir Patrick Sanders
September 2025

SSI Lecture Series

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Professor Chiara Ruffa
June 2024

What is military professionalism?

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Squadron Leader Lee Ashcroft
May 2024

The UK Defence crisis planning in humanitarian assistance disaster relief (HADR) operations during climate change

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Major General (ret'd) Chip Chapman
Feb 2024

Where there's a will there's a way: The Psychology of War

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Professor Frances Tammer
Jan 2024

 Do Decision Makers Listen to Intelligence Assessments? Some Reflections

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Professor Anthony King
Dec 2023

War in the Twenty-First Century
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