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...
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#WavellReviews “How to fight a War” by Mike Martin
For those new to this subject, it is a great introduction, but I also suspect that its clarity and depth may prove refreshing to the...
#WavellReviews “The Scientific Way of Warfare – Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity” by Antoine Bousquet
Bousquet’s belief that militaries are invariably bounded by the limits set by their own institutional frameworks does not bode well...
Israel’s Victory Doctrine: A Response
On 27 August 2021 The Wavell Room published a piece titled “Israel’s Victory Doctrine Achieves its First Indeterminate Outcome” by Michael C. Davies. This article...
Multi Domain Operations Below the Division
In late 2011 General Martin Dempsey laid down a doctrinal challenge by asking ‘what’s after joint?’. The core problem the US military faced, as he...
Human Security: People, Wants, and Fears
. “[T]he ultimate units of the great society of all mankind are not states… but individual human beings, which are permanent and indestructible in a...
Architecting the Information Age War
It is folly to plan to fight the information age war using contemporary technologies fixed to industrial age CONOPS and platforms. We need new Information...
The Integrated Operating Concept
In September 2020 the Secretary of State for Defence and the Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) launched The Integrated Operating Concept 2025 (IOpC). IOpC...
Thinking like Sun Tzu – part 2, a series of 6 maxims
Part 1 introduced a number of Sun Tzu’s aphorisms. On their own, they can seem somewhat abstract. In Part 2, we will take these ideas...
Decolonising Professional Military Education
Decolonizing as a project and practice has generated renewed attention since the global Black Lives Matter protests’ demands for a far-reaching engagement with the structural...