I #ChooseToChallenge: My Previous Self
Editor’s note: this article forms part of our #ChoosetoChallenge21 series. What follows is a personal account of serving alongside women in the British Army. Here,...
Category : Opinion
Feeling Lucky? Make your own luck.
Listening to some of my Team talking over coffee the subject turned – as it often does – to careers. ‘He is such a lucky...
#WavellReviews “Future War and the Defence of Europe” by J Allen, F Hodges, J Lindley-French
Can Europe defend itself? The answer presented in this book is a pretty firm ‘no’....
Why Europe can’t fend for itself
Can Europe take care of its own defence, without American protection? This old question has come to the fore again as a result of America’s...
Waving a Small Stick at China
Whenever defence reviews are published commentators tend to focus on the number of military personnel the government thinks are necessary to defend British interests. Reductions...
Credit Where Credit is Due – China and the Integrated Review
The direction of Britain’s future foreign strategy, as outlined in the Integrated Review, is all about balancing values with pragmatism. It should be commended for...
Sharpening The UK Defence’s Edge in the 2020s: General Sir Patrick Sanders’s speech to the UK Strategic Command Conference at RUSI.
This is a transcript of the speech given by General Sir Patrick Sanders to the UK Strategic Command Conference at RUSI on 26 May 2021....
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...
Wargaming in the Reserve
Wargaming has significant utility to enhance training within the Army Reserve. It offers professionally engaging and conceptually challenging training with low resource costs. Additionally, it...
Britain should be more Italy?
The recently released British defense policy paper known as the Integrated Review, and the accompanying Defense Command Paper, predictably touched off a firestorm of controversy...