Waving a Small Stick at China
Whenever defence reviews are published commentators tend to focus on the number of military personnel the government thinks are necessary to defend British interests. Reductions...
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Legal tiptoeing: the Integrated Review, Data-Sharing, and the EU
Announced on 16 March, The Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy (IR) affirms the UK’s security-related policy decisions for the next decade....
Tunes of Glory – a Tale of Two Colonels and a Tale of our Time
The 1960 film Tunes of Glory has long been a favourite. The movie depicts a post-World War II Scottish infantry battalion headquartered in Stirling Castle....
Resilience and Success in Warfare
”Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Sir Winston S. Churchill Because the nature of...
Featured UN Intelligence in the Balkans
The former UN Secretary-General, Dag Hammerskjold, believed that peace operations must have ‘clean hands’ and not use intelligence. For Hammerskjold, the use of intelligence would...
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...
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...