The French intervention in Mali: A lesson in Mission Command
À l’école j’étudie l’histoire et ‘Mission Command’. In January 2013, France launched Operation SERVAL to...
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The British Army & the Chilcott Report: Strategy is not the Answer
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The Future Operating Environment and the UK Principles of War: ‘A Perspective’
The Global Strategic Trends Out to 2045 asserts that the British Army’s future adversaries could...
Drugs, Choices and the Military
Contrary to the UK trend of cannabis being the most widely used illegal drug, cocaine...
Learning from Germany’s Inner Guidance: The Ethical Citizen Soldier
After World War 2 the Bundeswehr went through a period of ethical soul searching resulting...
The British Regimental System: essential or outdated?
Whether one considers the Regimental System to be a gift of history or an outdated...