What Makes a Good Military Coalition Partner?
The United States Defence Secretary, Pete Hegseth, recently commented that the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, which existed between 2001-2014, colloquially stood for...
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Don’t Panic: Our European friends can raise NATO’s game
Over the last few weeks a series of speeches have described the Russian threat to peace in Europe. On 10 January, Sweden’s Civil Defence Minister...
“Are We Ready for War?” A Book Review
Britons dismayed by nearly incessant reports regarding the plight of their armed forces understandably have been fretting about the state of their military and whether...
The Problems of Resource Account Budgeting (RAB) for the Army
I begin this article with a health warning. This article is not a lively doctrine discussion, nor a new military history interpretation or weapon lethality...
What is to be done? Ukraine and the IR
Putin’s horrific and appalling escalation of his conflict in Ukraine has killed the UK’s Integrated Review in all but name. Although its strategic analysis was...
Homeland resilience weakness in the UK: Defence’s lack of preparation for a CBRN event
Since the end of the Cold War, the United Kingdom’s homeland resilience capacity has been quietly atrophying. The country’s patent lack of preparation for the...
Our Greatest Security Risk may be a Communications Failure
This article presents primary research conducted by Cast From Clay into the impact of story telling on defence communications,....