#WavellReviews “Future War and the Defence of Europe” by J Allen, F Hodges, J Lindley-French
Can Europe defend itself? The answer presented in this book is a pretty firm ‘no’....
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Why Europe can’t fend for itself
Can Europe take care of its own defence, without American protection? This old question has come to the fore again as a result of America’s...
Turkey-NATO-Russia
The debate over NATO’s relationship with Turkey crested in 2019 with the decision to buy a Russian air defence system, the S400. The purchase was...
Homeland resilience weakness in the UK: Defence’s lack of preparation for a CBRN event
Since the end of the Cold War, the United Kingdom’s homeland resilience capacity has been quietly atrophying. The country’s patent lack of preparation for the...
Three Tough Choices Europe must face with Biden as President
The four years of the Trump administration were a near-death experience for NATO and the transatlantic community. This is an experience from which Europe must...
What Can The Military Learn From A Decade Of Cyber Attacks?
Cyber warfare is becoming increasingly important in the modern world. But do you understand what is already happening and why it's important?...
Russian Navy Activity in the North Sea
This article argues that the Royal Navy and NATO navies should adopt a counter information campaign that makes the full vulnerability of Russia’s deployments public....
Understanding Russia’s Foreign Policy Through International Arms Sales
Despite the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the post-Soviet Russian Federation has continued its inheritance of the mantle of second-biggest arms exporter country...
Forget About Hybrid Warfare; Listening to Russia Helps us Predict Their Actions
This Wavell Room podcast was recorded in partnership with the British Army’s Education Branch. This podcast features Emily Ferris and is titled: Forget about hybrid...
Why the future of history still matters. An addendum
In Phil Clare’s recent Wavell Room article on General Hackett’s ‘future history’ book The Third World War, he compared and contrasted the UK military’s ability...