So you want to be ‘Feminist AF’?
It’s a rhetorical question, of course. If you want to be the best Armed Forces, then the only way to go is Feminist. If you...
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Organisational Learning Culture: A changing paradigm
Education has always been a hot topic within a military context, with an ever-increasing need to ensure that soldiers maintain their ‘intellectual edge’. This has...
Interview with Commander Field Army Lieutenant General Ivan Jones CB
In December 2019 we interviewed the Commander of the Field Army, Lieutenant General Ivan Jones CB. Questions were formed from those submitted to Wavell Room...
Christmas #PME: Looking for something to read?
2019 has been an excellent year for professional military education (PME). This article contains the top picks from the Wavell Room's team of editors....
What has the National Army Museum ever done for us?
Here at the National Army Museum in London, we tell the story of our Army from the 1640s to today. Founded in 1960 by Royal...
Does Professional Military Education Matter?
‘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...
Cheer Up! PME is More Than a Classroom
In May of 1916, Captain William Sims was the “plankowner” commander of the USS Nevada, a brand new Dreadnought type battleship which launched in 1914...
Military Learning in the 21st Century
Military learning is a hot topic. It comes in many different guises: ‘conceptual development’, ‘the intellectual edge’, ‘strategic adaptability’, or ‘innovative by design.’ Yet behind...
Grey Threat: Exploring Tactical Information Advantage.
PART ONE: INFOPOCALYPSE RISING ‘No amount of kinetic action – alone, and divorced from ideological considerations – can make this threat disappear . Alberto Fernandez,...
Four Little Words: Why I Write
On a cold November morning several years ago, I was putting the finishing touches on a blog post when I added four simple words: writing...