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...
Category : People and Leadership
Menopause: The Ultimate Taboo
Menopause. It’s the ultimate taboo. Nobody talks about it. Nobody understands it. Defence needs to break the stigma. There are over 16,130 females serving in...
The British Army has a Blackbelt in ‘Bullshito’
‘Therefore no plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force’ but often misquoted as ‘No plan survives...
Rewriting history: St Valery and Remembrance
The first myth that St Valery was a purely Scottish battle. Whilst the Highland Division was primarily Scottish, its make up also reflected the entire...
What’s in a Meme?
I am starting to become obsessed with memes. Their omnipresence is almost overwhelming. From the easy to understand to the bizarrely obscure, many provide simple...
International Women’s Day 2021 – Wavell Room #choosetochallenge
International Women’s Day (IWD) 2021 seeks to inculcate a global challenge culture and raise awareness of the problems that still exist for women. In Defence,...
#WavellReviews “The Leadership Book” by Neil Jurd
Jurd treats you like an intelligent adult. He avoids jargon, and the book is incisive, with no padding. This makes it both a short and...
Balancing C2 Resilience
Executive Summary Resilience, efficiency, effectiveness: all are commonly used, and arguably well understood, terms. However, in the context of command and control (C2), the use of such...
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’....
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...