Legal tiptoeing: the Integrated Review, Data-Sharing, and the EU
Announced on 16 March, The Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy (IR) affirms the UK’s security-related policy decisions for the next decade....
Category : Concepts and Doctrine
Tempo, Cohesion, and Risk: Towards a Theory of Multi Domain Warfare
The US Army requires a modernised “theory of action” to thrive within the changing phenomenon of 21st century great power competition. At the operational level,...
The Vampire Fallacy: Virtual Reality vs Needs Based Strategies
Training to win in the urban space is one of the greatest challenges for any military. Dismounted small units are the key force within the...
Resilience and Success in Warfare
”Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Sir Winston S. Churchill Because the nature of...
#WavellReviews “First In, Last Out: The Post-War Organisation, Employment and Training of Royal Marine Commandos” by Paul Winter (editor)
His fundamental argument - that the RM need to separate themselves from the pack by carving a distinct defence niche and identity with a bespoke...
Featured UN Intelligence in the Balkans
The former UN Secretary-General, Dag Hammerskjold, believed that peace operations must have ‘clean hands’ and not use intelligence. For Hammerskjold, the use of intelligence would...
Clausewitz and the Strategic Deficit
Carl von Clausewitz’ seminal work On War remains as relevant today as it has been since the day it was written. Some may see its...
Innovation and the Integrated Review
Jack Welch, CEO of General Electric, once wrote, ‘We’ve long believed that when the rate of change inside an institution becomes slower than the rate...
We’re Only Deceiving Ourselves
In July 2008, 11 Columbian commandos mounted an operation to rescue 15 hostages whom FARC guerrillas held for over five years. The operation was a...
Human Security: People, Wants, and Fears
. “[T]he ultimate units of the great society of all mankind are not states… but individual human beings, which are permanent and indestructible in a...