The New Strategist is a collaborative journal between the CCW Programme and the UK MOD's Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre. The journal aims to acquaint readers with excellent and innovative multi- and inter-disciplinary scholarship in strategic studies that address the pressing concerns of strategic leaders in the fields of defence and security. The journal does not present or reflect UK Ministry of Defence policy, opinions or beliefs: every article independently stands or falls on its intellectual merit.

ARTICLES

Soft Power in Theory and Practice
Graeme P. Auton and Robert J. Jackson

Making Sense of Strategy’s Relational Nature
Lukas Milevski

Fighting Complexity With Complexity: Recognising the New Science in NSS
William Rushworth

Uncertainty in National Security Strategy: ‘What the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street could teach the old men of Whitehall.’
James Sladden

Education and the General: Educating Military Executives
Randall Wakelam

Space Security and Strategic Stability
Jing Zhong

INTERVIEWS

Collateral Damage, Covert Operations and American Exceptionalism: An Interview with Chris Woods
Roderick McKenzie

Drones and the RAF: An Interview with Sqn Ldr Keith Dear
James Fergus Rosie

On the Ethics of Drone Strikes, Optimism and Obscuring Language: A Conversation with an Anonymous Academic
Christiana Spens

REVIEWS

Ramsay, Gilbert (2013), Jihadi Culture on the World Wide Web (Bloomsbury: New York)
Roderick McKenzie

Gary J. Bass (2014), The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide (Hurst & Co: London)
Christiana Spens