Why ‘Good Enough’ Isn’t Good Enough: Abandoning Time-Based Promotions
“It is what it is” is one of the most harmful sayings in the British Army’s lexicon. Accompanied with a shrug of the shoulders and...
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Fail to train or train to fail
Introduction The British Army’s inability to train at scale seriously challenges the credibility of 3(UK) Division as the Army’s ‘warfighting’ division. If we were asked...
More range or more Rangers – the fight for the future of the British Army.
In 2015 the Chief of the General Staff, General Sir Nicholas Carter, stated that the British Army had ‘bent [itself] significantly out of shape from...
A Question of Value: The British Army and the UK
On 17 May 21, the All Party Parliamentary Group for the Armed Forces held a meeting to discuss the recently released report by the Oxford...
#WavellReviews “How the Army made Britain a Global Power: 1688-1815” by Jeremy Black
'Military history should not be understood as a continuous logical development but rather, as unsatisfactory, temporary and incomplete attempts to address specific circumstances'...
Bring Out Your Dead? Dealing with the Fallen in Future Conflict
In light of increased international tensions, UK Defence is increasingly planning for great power war. New procurement programs and organisational reforms are ongoing across the...
#WavellReviews “The Changing of the Guard. The British Army since 9/11” by Simon Akam
"The cultural issues the British Army has at the moment are significant. No other organisation would have reacted to two decades of failure in its...
Culture: addressing Apathy and Dishonesty within the British Army.
Last year I wrote a Wavell Room article titled ‘A Culture of apathy and dishonesty within the British Army’. It was met with mixed reviews, whilst it...
What is the Tank Good For?
In March 2020 the United States Marine Corps announced that it would be disbanding its tank units. At the time the US Marines fielded three...
Op Ed: Defence should train more for MACA
This opinion piece argues that Defence needs to re-assess their enduring view of military aid to the civil authority (MACA) tasks and conduct more training...