Concepts and Doctrine Archives

#WavellReviews “Vicarious Warfare: American Strategy and the Illusion of War on the Cheap” by Thomas Waldman

LouiseApril 8, 2021April 7, 2021

by LouiseApril 8, 2021April 7, 2021046

Available here from Bristol University Press Having recently read Simon Akam’s The Changing of the Guard, I rushed straight to The Wavell Room asking if...

The Integrated Operating Concept Isn’t Very Good

Sarah ChubbMarch 31, 2021February 28, 2021

by Sarah ChubbMarch 31, 2021February 28, 20210255

The Integrated Operating Concept 2025 (IOpC 25) is supposed to guide the UK armed forces for the years ahead starting in 2025. As a concept, however,...

#WavellReviews “We are Bellingcat” by Eliot Higgins

The Wavell Room TeamMarch 11, 2021February 27, 2021

by The Wavell Room TeamMarch 11, 2021February 27, 20210198

Available here from Bloomsbury Bellingcat. If you don’t know immediately what that word means, there is still a very good chance you have come across...

#WavellReviews “Divided Armies: Inequality & Battlefield Performance in Modern War” by Jason Lyall

Axel DesseinMarch 4, 2021February 27, 2021

by Axel DesseinMarch 4, 2021February 27, 20210317

Available here from Princeton University Press Jason Lyall’s “Divided Armies” is a welcome contribution to our perception of war and how it is fought. Its...

What is the Tank Good For?

Michael J. Rasmussen and Walker D. MillsMarch 3, 2021February 28, 2021

by Michael J. Rasmussen and Walker D. MillsMarch 3, 2021February 28, 20210669

In March 2020 the United States Marine Corps announced that it would be disbanding its tank units. At the time the US Marines fielded three...

Architecting the Information Age War

Martin CrillyFebruary 23, 2021February 23, 2021

by Martin CrillyFebruary 23, 2021February 23, 20210556

It is folly to plan to fight the information age war using contemporary technologies fixed to industrial age CONOPS and platforms. We need new Information...

The Integrated Operating Concept

Steve MaguireFebruary 19, 2021February 19, 2021

by Steve MaguireFebruary 19, 2021February 19, 20210762

In September 2020 the Secretary of State for Defence and the Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) launched The Integrated Operating Concept 2025 (IOpC). IOpC...

The only real stealth environment

Paul BeaverFebruary 5, 2021February 4, 2021

by Paul BeaverFebruary 5, 2021February 4, 20210444

Forget about the boomerang shaped stealth bomber or supposedly stealthy fighter aircraft. The surface of the earth and the air above it is now becoming...

#WavellReviews “Blood, Metal and Dust: How victory turned to defeat in Afghanistan and Iraq” by Brigadier (retd) Ben Barry

The Wavell Room TeamJanuary 28, 2021January 23, 2021

by The Wavell Room TeamJanuary 28, 2021January 23, 20210454

Rather than cutting off when large scale US /UK deployments ended, the author catches the reader up to the current situation as at publication. The...

Post-Industrial Civil-Military Relations

Nicholas J. MyersJanuary 27, 2021January 27, 2021

by Nicholas J. MyersJanuary 27, 2021January 27, 20210520

An oft-told joke about Russian conventional military capabilities in its Far East holds that were China to invade, the People’s Liberation Army would have a...