The Constant Struggle At Sea: Attacking And Protecting Shipping
The large-scale land warfare and aerial bombardment we are currently seeing in Ukraine is fortunately rare, but the other part of the current war, attacks...
Category : Concepts and Doctrine
Useful Fiction – Fragmented Future
South China Sea 2037 Standing on the bridge of St Albans’ Carrier Queen Elizabeth (SACQE), Tom scanned the horizon, his salty sea legs working to...
Fail to train or train to fail
Introduction The British Army’s inability to train at scale seriously challenges the credibility of 3(UK) Division as the Army’s ‘warfighting’ division. If we were asked...
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...
Russia’s Tactical Nuclear Weapons
In 2015 a prominent Russian specialist advised me to never underestimate Russia’s intentions regarding Tactical Nuclear Weapon (TNW). Since 1991 Russian developments within TNW doctrine...
Building Royal Navy 2035 Means Rebuilding the UK Defence Industrial Base
On 10th February 2022 the First Sea Lord (1SL), Admiral Sir Ben Key, delivered a speech outlining his bold vision for the Royal Navy in...
Beyond cyber security – Integrated Defensive Cyberspace Operations
Introduction Recent events in the Ukraine have highlighted the role that digital capabilities, information and Cyber Operations (CO) play as part of orchestrated strategic, operational...
How the West is starting to win the disinformation war
In the run up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. declassified an unprecedent amount of intelligence regarding how Putin was going to justify his...
The Disintegrated Review? Britain and the Ukraine Crisis
The more pessimistic strategic planners and security wonks in the UK could, if they were so inclined, play a depressing game of bingo around the...
Better Urban Training
Editor’s note: This article was written before Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine. The shocking images of urban combat that are emerging from this war...