It’s Time to Democratise Doctrine
General Erwin Rommel famously said ‘the British write some of the best doctrine in the world; it is fortunate that their officers do not read...
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Lessons from History: How Not to Start another War?
Abstract: This article examines significant similarities between the Sino-US rivalry today and the British-German rivalry that led to the First World War. In both cases...
From Trafalgar to Jutland: The Atrophy of a Great Naval Power
The embarrassing failure of the Royal Navy to destroy the smaller and less-experienced Imperial German Navy at the Battle of Jutland in 1916 was caused...
#WavellReviews “Blood, Metal and Dust: How victory turned to defeat in Afghanistan and Iraq” by Brigadier (retd) Ben Barry
Rather than cutting off when large scale US /UK deployments ended, the author catches the reader up to the current situation as at publication. The...