Harry Halem


Harry Halem
Harry Halem is a Senior Research Fellow in Foreign Policy and Defence. He specialises in grand and maritime strategy, defence industrial issues, and strategic history, particularly of British strategy from 1890 to 1945. Mr Halem holds an undergraduate degree in Philosophy and International Relations from the University of St Andrews, and a postgraduate degree in Political Theory from the London School of Economics, where he specialised in comparative intellectual history.

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From space to seabed

Download Publication Online Reader As reports of mysterious cable-cutting incidents and suspicious Russian activity near subsea infrastructure become increasingly common, a new report published by Policy Exchange today urges the UK Government to formulate a clear and comprehensive strategy for defending against growing threats to the undersea cables, which power global digital and energy connectivity. The report calls for a ‘space-to-seabed’ strategic doctrine which will bring the whole of government, […]

Closing the Back Door

Download Publication Online Reader A new report published by Policy Exchange – backed by former Defence Secretaries Rt Hon Sir Michael Fallon KCB and Rt Hon Lord Robertson of Port Ellen KT and former First Sea Lord and Security Minister, Admiral Lord West – sets out how the deteriorating threat landscape, and persistent Irish security freeloading , require the UK to rediscover the strategic importance of Northern Ireland to its […]

The Iran Question and British Strategy

  Download Publication   Online Reader British strategy must go beyond preserving the status quo. This no longer exists. Two decades of Iranian expansion and regional turmoil (including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan) have produced a new and evolving balance of power that currently favours Iran. British policy objectives should include maintaining freedom of access to and movement through the Middle East’s maritime chokepoints, in coordination with allies the […]

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