International Women’s Day 2021 – Wavell Room #choosetochallenge
International Women’s Day (IWD) 2021 seeks to inculcate a global challenge culture and raise awareness of the problems that still exist for women. In Defence,...
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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...
LET’S TALK ABOUT HUMAN SECURITY
Whichever way you look at it, understanding and addressing human security is a challenging problem. It isn’t just complicated, it’s highly complex. In principle, human...
Rethinking Women in Ground Close Combat
This article argues that the decision to open all branches of the military to women has failed to address several important issues regarding how the...
British Airborne Forces in the Contemporary Operating Environment
‘…a tribute to the man who is looking for no better drop zone for tomorrow than in the heartland of the enemy, the Allied airborne...
How to Achieve a Rationalisation of Ranks?
This article is part 2 of a series, part 1 can be found here. As suggested in the previous article, education is an important part...
Does Diversity Dilute the Warrior Ethos?
The British Army faces an increasingly complex operating environment, in which soldiers are ever more responsible for actions whose impact will go beyond the reach...
The First Female Defence Chief will be from the RAF
Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach, gave a wide ranging interview on his departure from the role of Chief of Defence Staff. One of his...
Space and Cyber; New Domains, Old Thinking
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the formation of the RAF and there have been numerous events to ‘commemorate, celebrate and inspire’. Lets not...
Wavell Talks E01; First Live Event
Live audio from #WavellTalks at the RUSI Land Warfare Conference 2018 - An intro by Assistant Chief of the General Staff General Sir Rupert Jones...