Why the war will end: Ukraine
At the end of 2023, Ukrainian author Yan Valetov wrote. ‘This war cannot be ended, because the Russians will not have the strength to destroy...
Category : Multi-Domain Operations
Into the Cold: Special Operations in the Arctic
Strategic competition has superseded the Global War on Terrorism as the central organizing principle for America’s military. Conflict has returned to the European continent with...
Loitering munitions – a revolution in Russian warfare?
The war in Ukraine is shaping the way the Russian Army fights and it is changing the country’s industrial priorities with significant effort being spent...
Military Strategic Direction in the UK – Is there another way?
Strategy’s function is to operate like a bridge that “provides a secure connection between the worlds of purpose, which contestably is generally called policy…and its...
A post-digital British military – the new influencing arm of the state
Introduction War has changed, but the British Military hasn’t. War has transformed from a fight over physical territory to a multi-dimensional struggle to influence global...
Why North Korea’s seventh test matters and why it doesn’t
Since early 2022, North Korea has been gearing up for its seventh nuclear test. It’s likely to be held at the Punggye-ri test site, the...
Worm at the core of human security
There’s this idea, captured in terror management theory, that the unique awareness of our own mortality is the ‘worm at the core’ of the human...
Climate Change, Arctic Security, and Allied Strategy: A Strategic Analysis
Global Britain in A Competitive Age, the United Kingdom’s (UK) 2021 integrated review on defence policy, identifies climate change as a future “transnational challenge” that...
MDI Revisited: Evolving Towards a Revolution?
Multi-Domain Integration (MDI) is the latest attempt by the UK armed forces to conceptualise the character of the contemporary and future threat environment and the...
Artificial Intelligence: The Ultimate Deterrence
“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The...