Are we all process monkeys now?
Do you spend your day answering emails, ticking off training objectives and signing forms, or are you pursuing organisational priorities and building valuable things? Much...
Category : Concepts and Doctrine
Defence’s Role in Education
The task of building schools and providing education to populations across the world has long been shouldered by civilian aid agencies and foreign diplomacy offices....
The Problems of Resource Account Budgeting (RAB) for the Army
I begin this article with a health warning. This article is not a lively doctrine discussion, nor a new military history interpretation or weapon lethality...
May the farce be with you: the assault on Vodyane village
In mid-January 2023 a separatist militia force attempted to assault and capture the village of Vodyane, West of Donetsk City. This was supported by a...
Urban Warfare is Not Exceptional
The idea that urban operations are somehow exceptional, or more difficult than anything else, rests on an almost tautological foundation. Is urban terrain a uniquely...
The Future of Defense: The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Modern Warfare
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming an integral part of modern defense systems and military operations. As military strategist and technologist John Arquilla has observed,...
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...
From aspiration to reality: updating UK defence policy for 2023
The momentous geopolitical and economic events of 2022 posed fundamental challenges to UK defence policy. The Government set out its defence priorities in the Integrated...
Russian Tanks: A New T-72B3M variant?
On 7 December, a 29 second YouTube video appeared on the net apparently showing a company batch of upgraded T-72B3M Russian tanks on rail flatcars at...
Fundamentals of Mutual Training Support
When counter-insurgency operations were at their height in the Twenty-First Century there was no shortage of studies or doctrine. Stuffed within every rucksack was a...