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?...
Category : Sea
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...
Why the Future of History Still Matters
‘The only serious threat to regional security, including the existence and sovereignty of Estonia and other Baltic Sea states, emanates from Russia.’ Estonian Foreign Intelligence...
The Vital and the Merely Important
Our armed forces never seem to have quite enough money for what they need. Fortunately we can decide what is actually required and what can...