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...
Category : Opinion
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...
A Reserve Force that is an integral element of the Whole Force
Is the overarching principle of Future Reserve 2020 realistically achievable by the British Army? As we reach the end of 2020, regardless of restrictions and...
#WavellReviews “The Changing of the Guard. The British Army since 9/11” by Simon Akam
"The cultural issues the British Army has at the moment are significant. No other organisation would have reacted to two decades of failure in its...
Culture: addressing Apathy and Dishonesty within the British Army.
Last year I wrote a Wavell Room article titled ‘A Culture of apathy and dishonesty within the British Army’. It was met with mixed reviews, whilst it...
Turkey-NATO-Russia
The debate over NATO’s relationship with Turkey crested in 2019 with the decision to buy a Russian air defence system, the S400. The purchase was...
From Trafalgar to Jutland: The Atrophy of a Great Naval Power
The embarrassing failure of the Royal Navy to destroy the smaller and less-experienced Imperial German Navy at the Battle of Jutland in 1916 was caused...
The Integrated Operating Concept Isn’t Very Good
The Integrated Operating Concept 2025 (IOpC 25) is supposed to guide the UK armed forces for the years ahead starting in 2025. As a concept, however,...
Size does not matter: the UK’s continuing great power status
Recent analysis by a respected defence and security blog — Thin Pinstriped Line — has led me to ponder the real issue at the heart...