Falklands 40: A Corbettian re-assessment
It is forty years since British forces liberated the Falkland Islands and their dependencies from Argentine occupation. What is difficult to comprehend is that today...
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Into the Grey Zone. British Airborne Forces in Ukraine
16 Air Assault Brigade made headline news in September 2020 by parachuting into Ukraine to partner with the 80thSeparate Airborne Assault Brigade on Exercise Joint...
A Bridge Too Far – The Decline Of Conventional Parachuting Part 2
The first part of this paper analysed the impact of risk on politicians and subsequently the military operational commander. It assessed that in either a discretionary...
A Bridge Too Far: The Decline of Conventional Parachuting – Part 1
If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds. Napoleon Bonaparte General Lord...
The Future British Airborne Force
“Show me a man who will jump out of an aeroplane and I will show you a man who will fight” [General James M....
British Airborne Forces in the Contemporary Operating Environment
‘…a tribute to the man who is looking for no better drop zone for tomorrow than in the heartland of the enemy, the Allied airborne...