India’s Corbettian Maritime Strategy
Executive Summary In response to the recent unpleasantness in the Himalayas this past summer, India has taken a number of strategic steps at sea to...
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Russian Navy Activity in the North Sea
This article argues that the Royal Navy and NATO navies should adopt a counter information campaign that makes the full vulnerability of Russia’s deployments public....
The United States Marine Corps is Changing. Why Should we Care?
The USMC is changing and the reforms offer an insight into US strategic policy making. Why should the UK care about it?...
Hunt, the Replacement
Minehunters – they’re ugly, made of plastic, full of muppets and getting old. This is why we should replace them. Navy discussions at the moment...
How the “Gibraltar of the East” fell: A Historical Analysis of the Singapore Strategy up to WWII.
Origins Singapore was an important British colonial outpost situated at the tip of the Malayan Peninsula. Founded in 1819 by Sir Stamford Raffles, by 1919...
“There’s something wrong with our bloody leaders…”
The Royal Navy is running a manning deficit of 5%, has been highlighted by the National Audit Office as routinely underestimating and over-engineering equipment projects, and recently failed in...
The Importance of Gender Neutral Language for Defence
Why is adopting gender-neutral language so difficult for the Armed Forces? In 2017, a training establishment was widely ridiculed in the press for having suggested a fairly mild...
A New Conception of War. John Boyd, the U.S. Marines and Manoeuvre Warfare. By Ian T. Brown.
“I believe the world’s greatest military theorist are Carl von Clausewitz , Sun Tzu, and John Boyd” – Lieutenant General (Ret’d) Paul K Van Riper USMC. ...
Cheer Ship! A First Naval Birthday Review
A week is a long time in politics (and goodness me, of late an hour or two of House of Commons shenanigans feels like a...
Reflections on the Battle of Jutland
More than a hundred years after Jutland this famous sea battle remains a source of controversy. Much ink has been spilled over what happened and...