The IISS launched Strategic Survey 2010, its annual review of world affairs, on 7 September. In presenting the book's main arguments, IISS Director-General and Chief Executive Dr John Chipman suggested a rethink of the West's counter-insurgency plan in Afghanistan was needed. The current strategy, he said, was 'too ambitious, too removed from the core security goals that need to be met, and too sapping of diplomatic and military energies needed both in the region and elsewhere'. Dr Chipman, Alexander Nicoll, Editor of Strategic Survey, and other senior IISS experts then answered questions from the floor.
