Sir Stewart Eldon, the former UK Permanent Representative to Nato and Dr Robin Niblett, the director of Chatham House.
The report that I produced for Chatham House has been summarised in Chapter 4: The Battle for the Airwaves.
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"He was a great thinker, " said Hadi Sekura, of Chatham House, a London-based organization for the analysis of international issues.
The participants (who met under the Chatham House Rule) included uber security geeks, privacy advocates, Defense Industrial representatives, and policy influencers.
Straw also spoke at Chatham House, describing the need for global unity.
"The coalition inherited a defence budget that was over-committed, " says Dr Paul Cornish, head of the international security programme at Chatham House.
Earlier, Mr Blair's former top foreign policy adviser Sir Stephen Wall voiced his worries about the conflict in a lecture at Chatham House.
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Marie Lall is a South Asia specialist at the Institute of Education, University of London, and an associate fellow at Chatham House.
Ms Wilmshurst, now a fellow of the Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House, resigned in March 2003 before the first attacks on Baghdad.
Paul Stevens of Chatham House points out that in the early 1950s transport accounted for a third of the cost of Persian Gulf oil shipped to America.
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And Jane Kinninmont, a Bahrain expert and senior research fellow at London's Chatham House, has argued that it is not just freedom of association that is under threat.
John Swenson-Wright is Senior Consulting Fellow of the Asia Programme at Chatham House and Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, at the University of Cambridge.
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"I know we've made tactical errors, thousands of them, I'm sure, " she said in a speech at Blackburn's Chatham House -- a center for independent research on global issues.
The venue was Chatham House but - unusually for the frank meetings which take place in this plush pile in London's St James's - his comments were attributable and on the record.
The other participants in this week's show were Deanne Julius, Chairman of Chatham House and Sir Howard Davies, the former Director of the FSA and a former deputy governor of the Bank of England.
It has also raised the risk profile across the region, compounding "a wider mood of instability across the Saharan region, " says Jon Marks, associate fellow on the Middle East and north Africa programme at Chatham House.
David Clemente, a cyber security expert at Chatham House, told the BBC the government's strategy was a "promising step" - but it would be a challenge to deliver the dozens of actions listed when government spending is so tight.
More than 60 ships have been attacked by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden this year alone, compared with about half that number in 2007, according to a report released earlier this month by Chatham House, a London-based institute that analyzes international affairs.
It was one of more than 60 ships that have been attacked by pirates off the Somali coast this year alone, compared with about half that in 2007, according to a report released earlier this month by Chatham House, a London-based institute that analyzes international affairs.
According to Fadi Hakura, an expert on Turkey from Chatham House in London, Turkey is doing nothing less than recreating Islam - changing it from a religion whose rules must be obeyed, to one designed to serve the needs of people in a modern secular democracy.
Rachel Schneller, a U.S. Foreign Service officer who is now a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, in an essay for Chatham House, cautions any United States withdrawal from Iraq must be responsible and added that "getting the country electrified" would be a key stride.
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