The Future’s Bright, The Future’s Light
The phrase ‘light brigade’ generates mixed responses. For most it is instinctively preceded by ‘The Charge of the’ leading to ruminations about blundering senior officers,...
Category : Opinion
The Integrated Operating Concept
In September 2020 the Secretary of State for Defence and the Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) launched The Integrated Operating Concept 2025 (IOpC). IOpC...
It is time to kill our darlings
We could ‘fight them on the beaches’, or we could ‘actively constrain in a cyber domain to protect critical national infrastructure in the maritime domain’....
Attacking a Nuclear Iran: Lessons from Israel’s 1981 Attack on Iraq
The assassination last year of the Iranian nuclear scientist, Brigadier General Mohsen Fakhrizadeh has been added to the torrid history of nuclear energy activity in...
Op Ed: Defence should train more for MACA
This opinion piece argues that Defence needs to re-assess their enduring view of military aid to the civil authority (MACA) tasks and conduct more training...
#WavellReviews “Armies of Sand” by Kenneth Pollack
'As such, Armies of Sand is a must read for anyone with an interest in Arab armies and how they might develop in the future.'...
Mutual Support: Maximising the Army Reserve
Since 1908 the UK has maintained a force for home defence. Originally known as the Territorial Force, it went through several name changes before becoming...
Post-Industrial Civil-Military Relations
An oft-told joke about Russian conventional military capabilities in its Far East holds that were China to invade, the People’s Liberation Army would have a...
Theseus, Daedalus and Icarus
In Greek mythology Icarus was the son of the master craftsman and innovator Daedalus who built wings from wax. Icarus flew too close to the...
India’s Corbettian Maritime Strategy
Executive Summary In response to the recent unpleasantness in the Himalayas this past summer, India has taken a number of strategic steps at sea to...