Climate Strikes: Armed Forces and the Climate Emergency
Executive Summary Whilst much has been written on how climate change will affect global security, including how this will affect the military, there has been...
Category : Concepts and Doctrine
Influencing the mind of an adversary
Executive summary This article considers how UK Defence might influence the mind of an adversary, learning from and using techniques employed in the past. Examples...
Why We Need A Modern Theory of Special Warfare to Thrive in the Human Domain
“We have been inclined to believe that our armed forces are excessively professional and regular. This war [WW2] has shown, as others have done before...
Warfare, Dinner Jackets, Hammers and Nails
COVID-19 and the military’s contribution to the nation’s requirement for increased human security has been instructive. Transport aircraft, logisticians, and counter-disinformation warriors are performing admirably,...
Hunt, the Replacement
Minehunters – they’re ugly, made of plastic, full of muppets and getting old. This is why we should replace them. Navy discussions at the moment...
A New Conception of War. John Boyd, the U.S. Marines and Manoeuvre Warfare. By Ian T. Brown.
“I believe the world’s greatest military theorist are Carl von Clausewitz , Sun Tzu, and John Boyd” – Lieutenant General (Ret’d) Paul K Van Riper USMC. ...
Digital Disruption: Major General Copinger-Syme’s Speech to the UK Strategic Command Inaugural Conference at RUSI
#Digital disruption: collaboration, risk and the strategic importance of data. Read Maj Gen Copinger-Syme's #UKStratCom Conference at #RUSI here...
Cognitive Agility & The Thinking Approach Space
This article proposes a model for thinking about thinking: The Thinking Approach Space...
The Answer is Multi Domain Operations – Now What’s the Question?
Tap your heels together three times and think to yourself: ‘There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home, there’s no place like home’...
Drug-fuelled combatants: achieving military success by enhancing human ability
In November 2008, ten members of terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba carried out a devastating attack in Mumbai. These men fought an extended battle with Indian security...