India’s Corbettian Maritime Strategy
Executive Summary In response to the recent unpleasantness in the Himalayas this past summer, India has taken a number of strategic steps at sea to...
Category : Concepts and Doctrine
Wargaming has a Diversity Problem
Executive Summary Wargaming has a diversity problem: 98% white and male. I propose there are two ways that people engage with wargames: To dominate, to...
#WavellReviews ‘Adaptation under Fire: How Militaries Change in Wartime’ by Lt. General (Ret’d) David Barno and Nora Bensahel.
This book offers significant context and substance to our collective understanding of military change and how we conceptualise adaptability. Its clarity and purpose is refreshing...
Decolonising Professional Military Education
Decolonizing as a project and practice has generated renewed attention since the global Black Lives Matter protests’ demands for a far-reaching engagement with the structural...
Thinking like Sun Tzu – Part 1
This is the first in a 2-part series that aims to help people better understand and use a number of Sun Tzu’s aphorisms....
Building an Effective Indigenous Counter-Insurgency Force – Part 2
During their occupation of India, the British built one of the most effective indigenous military forces in history, the British Indian Army. This is not to...
Building an Effective Indigenous Counter-Insurgency Force – Part 1.
I’ve studied Counter insurgency for decades. When I served in the 6th Special Forces Group over fifty years ago, I was assigned to edit a...
#WavellReviews – “War by Others’ Means” by Dr Jack Watling and Nick Reynolds (A RUSI paper)
The difficulty of extricating from expeditionary campaigns makes the use of deniable, ‘fire and forget’ assistance from special forces appealing to governments with an eye...
A culture of apathy and dishonesty within the British Army
I write this opinion piece from a position of fortune – I am lucky to be in a job where I work with, and lead, circa...
Motivations, Mechanisms and Metrics in a Command Structure.
“Why does London have no queues for bread? Back in Moscow, our finest minds are working on the bread supply system, and yet there are...