Forming Square: Bullying and the MOD
This week was Anti-Bullying Week, organised by the Anti-Bullying Alliance to raise awareness of bullying between children and young people. However, it was the issue of workplace...
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Three Tough Choices Europe must face with Biden as President
The four years of the Trump administration were a near-death experience for NATO and the transatlantic community. This is an experience from which Europe must...
Intellectual Discipline: The missing Core Value
“Learning organisations defeat insurgencies, hierarchical bureaucracies do not” Gen D Petraeus, 2006. A Learning Culture The British military needs a Learning Culture. This statement...
Why the United States Needs to Rethink its China Strategy
America’s current strategy to prevent China’s rise in Eurasia is failing and needs to be rethought. Prior to Trump taking office, the United States’ strategy...
R2P and the Integrated Review
Executive Summary This article argues that the Integrated Review and merger of the FCO and DFID offers an opportunity for Defence to reinvigorate and deepen...
Where to Mission Command?
Executive Summary Based on John Lauren’s review of Andrew Milburn’s book When the Tempest Gathers, the article focusses on Milburn’s lamenting of the disconnect between...
What Can The Military Learn From A Decade Of Cyber Attacks?
Cyber warfare is becoming increasingly important in the modern world. But do you understand what is already happening and why it's important?...
Resist the Temptation – Defence Must Do Less on Post COVID-19 Civil Resilience
The MoD has been doing a great deal of resilience work during COVID. But this author thinks it ought to do less in the future,...
NATO’s China Problem
For the past 70 years, NATO has been able to focus on the defence of Western Europe. How should the Alliance approach the resurgence of...
Let’s talk about sex.
There is a saying that ‘behind every great man is an even greater woman’, but who is behind every great woman? Recently, whilst researching Field...