The Integration of Women in the British Army
It was not until 2018 that the British Defence Secretary announced that all roles in the Army were open to women. Unfortunately, the prevailing culture...
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AI on the Battlefield: Lessons from Ukraine
In the first phase of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the focus was on hardware – the natural reflex being to counter mass with more mass. Ukraine...
Army Future Operating Concept
In this episode, the Wavell Room speaks to Lt Col Gordon Muir about the Army’s future Operating Concept. It’s been over a decade since the...
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...
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...