#WavellReviews “Something Rotten: Land Command in the 21st Century” by Jim Storr
Simply put, military staffs are not as capable because they have too much pointless process, work in open plan command posts, and don’t think or...
Category : Opinion
Mercenaries in Modern Peacekeeping: Wagner Group in Mali
The UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) offers a case study demonstrating the negative influence mercenary groups have on modern peacekeeping operations. This...
How Britain should deal with Russia going forward
The Kremlin’s war in Ukraine threatens to tear up the map of post-1989 Europe and plunge the world into a new Cold War. The unpredictability...
Fighting From Cities: The British Army after Ukraine
In its most recent publication, Future Soldier, the British Army describes its plans for future conflict. In it, the Army affirms its commitment to war-fighting...
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...
Reflections on Command and Decision Making
I had the privilege of commanding at three levels in the Army – troop (twice!), squadron, and regiment. I’ve also observed senior officers in command...
Heads in the Afghanistan Sand
After the fall of Kabul last year I eagerly awaited the military leadership response. Commanding Officers took to twitter, followed by letters from some Colonel...
Ukraine, the Integrated Review & Land Power in Europe
Since the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, and indeed in the build-up to the invasion, the reactionariat on Twitter and in the media have been...
Don’t be SMART – objective setting in Defence
Defence has reinvigorated its existing approach to annual appraisals, underlining objective setting as the key mechanism to frame and evaluate individual performance. But in relying...
What is to be done? Ukraine and the IR
Putin’s horrific and appalling escalation of his conflict in Ukraine has killed the UK’s Integrated Review in all but name. Although its strategic analysis was...