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...
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Human Security: People, Wants, and Fears
. “[T]he ultimate units of the great society of all mankind are not states… but individual human beings, which are permanent and indestructible in a...
Changing Course? Reconsidering the Education for Seapower Strategy
A New Beginning for PME? Just six months after the release of the heralded Education for Seapower Strategy, the United States Navy (USN) was labelled...
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...
#WavellReviews “Chef de Guerre” At the heart of special operations with a Navy Commando by Louis Saillans
The French language original edition of “Chef de Guerre” (Warlord) is available here from Louis de Mareuil Operation Barkhane began in August 2014 and followed...
Leadership has a Problem: ‘Lizard’
‘Do not let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and...
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...
#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...
The Good, Bad and Ugly – The British Army and the Integrated Review
The primary objective of the Integrated Review was to reconfigure UK defence commitments around a more realistic and achievable set of foreign policy goals. This...
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...