Ballistic – overhauling defence capability one app at a time
Introduction Ballistic is a mobile app that can be used to calculate the point from where parachutists should be released so that they can reach...
Category : Automation and Technology
MDI Revisited: Evolving Towards a Revolution?
Multi-Domain Integration (MDI) is the latest attempt by the UK armed forces to conceptualise the character of the contemporary and future threat environment and the...
The raid on Sevastopol Bay
On Saturday 29 October, at 4.30 am Moscow time, air defences at the Black Sea Fleet base in Sevastopol Bay were alerted to what appeared...
‘High Time for Hypersonic Missiles’ – the challenges of fielding hypersonic weapons for UK Defence
Introduction In 2019 English Indie artist Sam Fender’s song ‘Hypersonic Missiles’ was voted Hottest Record of the Year by Radio 1 listeners. Sadly, it seems,...
#WavellReviews “The Scientific Way of Warfare – Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity” by Antoine Bousquet
Bousquet’s belief that militaries are invariably bounded by the limits set by their own institutional frameworks does not bode well...
The Science of Cyber and the Art of Deception
The cyber domain and the concept of deception are deeply linked. Deception has been fundamental to the effectiveness of cyberattacks since their inception and is...
Silence, Starvation and Savagery: Countering Putin’s Brutal One-Two-Three
Putin has a one-two-three tactic to subdue Ukraine. The first blow silences, takes people’s voice, destroying mobile phone towers, cutting off communications. Then, when no-one...
#WavellReviews “Democracy Hacked: Political Turmoil and Information Warfare in the Digital Age” by Martin Moore
Democracy Hacked makes a compelling case that we are at an “inflection point, an existential crisis”...
#WavellReviews “I, Warbot. The Dawn of Artificially Intelligent Conflict” by Kenneth Payne
With the steady pace of technological developments, it is not clear how long this book will remain current, but you would be hard pushed to...
Sharpening The UK Defence’s Edge in the 2020s: General Sir Patrick Sanders’s speech to the UK Strategic Command Conference at RUSI.
This is a transcript of the speech given by General Sir Patrick Sanders to the UK Strategic Command Conference at RUSI on 26 May 2021....