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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A post-digital British military – the new influencing arm of the state
Introduction War has changed, but the British Military hasn’t. War has transformed from a fight over physical territory to a multi-dimensional struggle to influence global...
A Soldier, A Sailor and A Scientist – Space
This week on A Soldier, A Sailor and a Scientist, Pete and Frosty talk to DSTL’s Mike O’Callaghan about space. Space is a military domain...
“TWO OUT OF THREE AIN’T BAD…” Scale, Reach or Capability.
At the start of 2018, I wrote an editorial for my newsletter, Defence Analysis. Being one’s own boss is good, as you can indulge yourself...
Useful Fiction – Fragmented Future
South China Sea 2037 Standing on the bridge of St Albans’ Carrier Queen Elizabeth (SACQE), Tom scanned the horizon, his salty sea legs working to...
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...
Der Verlorne Haufen: Chapter 15
Uncrewed into the urban Just offshore, Sublanders silently waiting on the seafloor begin to hum and stir as electric pumps force water out of tanks,...
The British way in AI warfare.
Artificial Intelligence is of the moment, you might have noticed. It features prominently in the UK’s recent Integrated Security and Defence Review. The head of...
What might 2021 bring the British military?
With hindsight, 2020 was not a good year for those spending the weeks before Christmas making year ahead predictions. Covid-19 was only identified officially by...
Network-Centric Warfare: Can Europe be ready?
Many European nations’ next generation defence programmes contain network enabled capabilities. But, will Europe be ready for network-centric Warfare? The UK’s Tempest next-generation combat aircraft...