Corona Virus: What Next?
COVID-19 presents an opportunity for the UK Government to reassess its relationship with the private sector to increase collaboration for defence....
Category : Opinion
COVID-19 What if China Wins?
Editor’s note: This article was entered into the Wavell Room corona virus competition and finished in the top 5. ‘We are prepared to sacrifice 300...
Hard Choices After COVID-19
Editor’s note: This article was submitted in response to the Wavell Room’s “COVID-19 What Next? competition“. It was judged to be one of the winning...
The Fight for Wuhan
Editor’s note: This article was submitted in response to the Wavell Room’s call for papers “Corona Virus: What Next?” This article was judged the winning...
The Soft Power Army of the 2020s
MOD psychologists have discovered that pausing and taking time to think will increase our cognitive performance in a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous (VUCA) operating environment....
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...
The Need to Challenge Our Industry Partners
At a recent conference I attended, with many defence industry key players, we spent a lot of time learning how we are transforming the way...
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,...
The ‘Warrior Culture’ is more than a Badge
When an individual adopts the warrior ethos, do they understand it? Looking 'ally' is one thing but understanding warriors takes far longer....
Understanding Russia’s Foreign Policy Through International Arms Sales
Despite the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the post-Soviet Russian Federation has continued its inheritance of the mantle of second-biggest arms exporter country...