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RUSI

RUSI is a London-based defence and security think tank conducting research and policy analysis on military, geopolitical, and security issues.

Known aliases

  • Royal United Services Institute
  • RUSI

Current stories

leadershipOne report1 publisher

Norway's task force commander filters Ukraine's lessons by the constraint that produced them

Brigadier Atle Molde runs the camp he calls Norway's most important information sensor on modern war, and his working rule is that an adaptation is worth copying only once you know whether it came from insight or from scarcity.

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap0
Incentives40
Confidence60
securityOne report1 publisher

Daybreak enters a Ukrainian defence that already runs Google's AI tools

OpenAI is giving Ukraine's government its Daybreak cyber defence system and GPT-5.6 Sol for nothing. The only figure published alongside the deal is CERT-UA's count of nearly 6,000 attacks in 2025.

Publishers:bbc.com

Reality

Evidence44
Adoption30
Hype gap+28
Incentives72
Confidence52
productOne report1 publisher

OpenAI gives Ukraine free Daybreak access to find weaknesses in hospital and grid systems

Daybreak identifies weaknesses in digital systems and helps develop fixes. CERT-UA counted nearly 6,000 attacks in 2025. The free access extends a pattern OpenAI already runs with European firms and UK banks.

Publishers:bbc.co.uk

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption28
Hype gap+18
Incentives74
Confidence55
investOne report1 publisher

Arkham traces $30M of North Korean bitcoin through the exchange Washington wants inside its perimeter

Payward's Bitnomial filing answers the market-structure question the CFTC already knows how to answer. The open item is the screening of a permissionless order book, and no answer to that question exists yet.

Reality

Evidence40
Adoption45
Hype gap+45
Incentives72
Confidence45
investOne report1 publisher

A tanker whose owner dissolved 76 days before loading now leaks inside Oman's whale reserve

Cleanup for the grounded Caroline Bezengi is put at $200m to $500m, the international fund built for exactly this caps out near $279m, and its spokesperson says an act-of-war exclusion applies, so Oman is spending its own money.

Publishers:fortune.com

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption35
Hype gap+15
Incentives70
Confidence55