future warfare Archives

Faster, Stronger, Quicker, Decisive = Better Soldiers: The Case For Performance Enhancement

Gareth WMarch 10, 2020March 9, 2020

by Gareth WMarch 10, 2020March 9, 20200898

With an increasing likelihood of technological parity in traditional military technology, militaries are identifying new ways of operating. Hence the interest in information advantage or...

Drug-fuelled combatants: achieving military success by enhancing human ability

Tom HFebruary 11, 2020February 11, 2020

by Tom HFebruary 11, 2020February 11, 202001081

In November 2008, ten members of terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba carried out a devastating attack in Mumbai. These men fought an extended battle with Indian security...

Dangerous Knowledge?

Gareth WFebruary 4, 2020February 3, 2020

by Gareth WFebruary 4, 2020February 3, 202001273

There is a great deal of suspicion and mistrust about enhancement. The Royal Society’s iHuman report and the earlier AARP study of attitudes in the...

Drones and Artificial Intelligence by Pippa Malmgren

Wavell Room PodcasterJanuary 31, 2020January 29, 2020

This Wavell Room podcast was recorded in partnership with @WarTalks. This podcast features Dr Pippa Malmgrem in a talk titled Drones and Artificial Intelligence. Pippa...

Long Read

Insights, external networks, Innovation, and Reservists

ChrisJanuary 23, 2020January 22, 2020

by ChrisJanuary 23, 2020January 22, 20200864

In his 2018 address, the Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) asked Defence ‘to stimulate innovation’ and ‘transform to be more agile’. Post this, you can’t move for in the...

Technology and the Future of Land Warfare

Wavell Room PodcasterDecember 6, 2019January 6, 2020

This podcast is produced in partnership with CHACR. Chris Tuck discusses how technology will impose pressures on the future of land warfare....

Concepts and Doctrine Land Short Read

Prototype Warfare: Inculcating a Culture of Adaptation in the British Army

Arnel P. David, Jason Buckley and Toby WhitmarshJune 4, 2019June 3, 2019

by Arnel P. David, Jason Buckley and Toby WhitmarshJune 4, 2019June 3, 201901950

The world is changing fast and if one thing is certain, our concepts of war are wrong. “It is impossible to anticipate precisely the character...

Urban Doctrine; British Army Developments

Wavell Room PodcasterMay 16, 2019August 27, 2019

Col Richard Sernberg from the British Army’s doctrine centre in Warminster provides a fascinating insight into the development of future urban war fighting doctrine....

Long Read Opinion People and Leadership

Does Professional Military Education Matter?

FreddieMay 16, 2019May 13, 2019

by FreddieMay 16, 2019May 13, 201901791

‘Education should implant a will and facility for learning. It should produce not learned but learning people. In times of change, learners inherit the earth...

Removing The Soldier From The Battlefield

Jimmy SamuelMarch 19, 2019March 19, 2019

by Jimmy SamuelMarch 19, 2019March 19, 201902823

Employing Augmented Reality for Remote Assistance Tasks on Deployments Conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan over thepast 15 years saw an increase in civilian contractor and...