The only real stealth environment
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...
Category : Concepts and Doctrine
#WavellReviews “Blood, Metal and Dust: How victory turned to defeat in Afghanistan and Iraq” by Brigadier (retd) Ben Barry
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
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...
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...
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...