Magic and Information (Part 1): Dual Role Manoeuvre
The article proposes that the UK adopts an information manoeuvre strategy called ‘dual-role manoeuvre’ based on the principles of magic. This article explains how this...
Category : Domains
Thursday Warriors: Is it time to re-think Royal Navy training?
In a slight departure from the normal format of Wavell Room articles, here we present four separate short thought pieces that all have a common...
Dissecting Cobra: Air-Land Integration in Normandy
This essay will dissect Op COBRA, based on analysis of the two components of Air Land Integration (ALI) according to modern British Joint Air and...
MAYDAY IN THE MAGELLAN – PART III What Caused the Flood?
Ten years ago, the Royal Navy’s Ice Patrol Vessel HMS Endurance catastrophically flooded. Her main engine room filled to the deckhead within 30 minutes. Such...
Failing to Succeed – A Different Approach
The Armed Forces should have a different approach towards ’failure’ if they want to develop commanders and staff that are capable of understanding and solving...
Reforming The Army Reserve
The Army Reserve needs fundamental structural reform to align it to the ‘whole force’ concept. This article proposes structural changes to better align it to...
Cognitive Agility: Providing the Performance Edge
The UK MOD believes that cognitive agility is increasingly required by Defence personnel to manage future demands from the increasingly Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous (VUCA)...
An Air Force For ‘Actual Fighting’: General Weyland’s Vision for Tactical Air Command after the Korean War
Given the recent return to a focus on great power conflict in U.S. national strategy, it is illuminating to consider how one U.S. Air Force...
Professional commentary in the public domain: advice from an occasional Naval dissident
I am a digital immigrant, despite having been taught basic computer programming at University in the 1970s and operating and managing combat data systems and...
Death of a Trade
My trade as a Military Linguist, at least as currently constituted, is going to die. It gives me no pleasure to offer this terminal diagnosis, but...
