Since March 2020, Airmic has been issuing Friday Reading, a curated series of readings and knowledge resources sent by email to Airmic members. The objective of Airmic Friday Reading was initially to keep members informed during the Covid-19 pandemic. Today, Airmic Friday Reading has evolved in scope to include content on a wide range of subjects with each email edition following a theme. This page is a searchable archive of all the readings and knowledge resources that have been shared.
Friday Reading Edition 186 (26th January 2024)
The UK and US attacked Houthi sites in Yemen on 11 January, following the group's attacks on Red Sea shipping. What is the background and situation in Yemen?
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Friday Reading Edition 186 (26th January 2024)
Roxanne Escobales, editor of The World Today, is joined by Tom Sharpe, a former commander in the Royal Navy and defence columnist with The Telegraph. Joining them are Dr Sanam Vakil, the director of Chatham House’s Middle East and North Africa Programme, and Farea Al-Muslimi, a research fellow with Chatham House’s Middle East and North Africa Programme.
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Friday Reading Edition 186 (26th January 2024)
Watchers will be concerned not only with how the Houthi’s will respond – a response likely to be defiant, but also, what the US and its allies are willing to do next to counter a persistent Houthi threat in the Red Sea without risking further escalation.
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Friday Reading Edition 186 (26th January 2024)
The US and its allies have very limited options to deter or stop the Houthis without seeking concessions from Israel on the war in Gaza, or engaging Iran in asymmetric targeting as a supporter of the Houthi movement.
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Friday Reading Edition 186 (26th January 2024)
Companies are facing the latest supply chain challenge as commercial ships are rerouted from one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes. We see an uneven impact across sectors and think those companies that learned from other recent trade disruptions may be better able to ride out the current upheaval
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Friday Reading Edition 186 (26th January 2024)
Although attacks by the Houthis did not inflict direct harm to personnel or assets linked to the sporting events in Saudi Arabia – aside from causing some disruption due to flights being cancelled – it served to highlight their cause using sport as a backdrop.
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Friday Reading Edition 185 (19th January 2024)
Generative AI (gen AI) is developing faster than ever—and it stands to have a profound impact on how we live and work. But business leaders are still grappling with how and where to use gen AI most effectively, and how to ensure the applications are fully adopted and scaled within their organisations.
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Friday Reading Edition 185 (19th January 2024)
“We’re at a pivotal moment in history, yet we still cling to outdated solutions,” says Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum.
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Friday Reading Edition 185 (19th January 2024)
Public and private sector leaders are gathering at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos against a backdrop of geopolitical fractures. Conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine are front of mind alongside climate change, macroeconomics and the advance of AI.
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Friday Reading Edition 185 (19th January 2024)
The Global Risks Report explores some of the most severe risks we may face over the next decade, against a backdrop of rapid technological change, economic uncertainty, a warming planet and conflict. As cooperation comes under pressure, weakened economies and societies may only require the smallest shock to edge past the tipping point of resilience.
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