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#WavellReviews – “War by Others’ Means” by Dr Jack Watling and Nick Reynolds (A RUSI paper)

Will
The difficulty of extricating from expeditionary campaigns makes the use of deniable, ‘fire and forget’ assistance from special forces appealing to governments with an eye...
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#WavellReviews ‘Mission Improbable: The Transformation of the British Army Reserve’ by Patrick Bury

Chris
‘Mission Improbable’ has been exquisitely researched.  In places, its level of detail reminded me of reading Anthony Beevor’s Stalingrad....
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Intellectual Discipline: The missing Core Value

“Learning organisations defeat insurgencies, hierarchical bureaucracies do not”                                                                                                                                        Gen D Petraeus, 2006. A Learning Culture The British military needs a Learning Culture. This statement...