The Utility of Reserve: The Royal Navy and the Maritime Reserve.
“The Reservist is twice the citizen” – Winston Churchill Genesis The Royal Navy (RN) has the Maritime Reserve (MR), a 1* led Fighting Arm (FA),...
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Trawls – The Power of the Military Volunteer in a Market Economy
Trawls – The Power of the Military Volunteer in a Market Economy The COVID-19 crisis demonstrated the power of the British Public to volunteer their...
#WavellReviews ‘Mission Improbable: The Transformation of the British Army Reserve’ by Patrick Bury
‘Mission Improbable’ has been exquisitely researched. In places, its level of detail reminded me of reading Anthony Beevor’s Stalingrad....
#WavellReviews ‘Forewarned: Tales of a Woman at War …with the Military System. Cockups, Conspiracies & Misogyny in the British Army’ by Diane Allen
On reflection, this is actually a book that should be read by those serving; I found it both fascinating and frustrating but also strangely compelling...
Hard Choices After COVID-19
Editor’s note: This article was submitted in response to the Wavell Room’s “COVID-19 What Next? competition“. It was judged to be one of the winning...
Veterans Homelessness at the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
So this is Christmas, and what have you done? John Lennon Homelessness tugs at the heartstrings and especially so in December. A recent report suggests...
Reimagining the Reserve #3; The Reservist Experience
The UKs Reserve forces need to adopt the principles of the 'experience industry' to best enable Reservists to contribute to Regular and operational outputs....
Reimagining the Reserve #2; Specialists and Generalists
#2 argues that the Army Reserve should be more generalist; and the Regular should become more specialist....
Reimagining the Army Reserve #1; Co-Creating Value
This article presents an affordable solution to the problem of mass for the Army specifically, and the Forces more widely....