Tag : training
Thinking Sailors: Re-imagining Staff Training and Postgraduate Education for the Royal Navy
Introduction There can be few employers who offer such a wide array of postgraduate training opportunities as the Royal Navy. Postgraduate degrees, fellowships and staff...
DIS Integration or Disintegration
With defence in an unheralded period of uncertainty it is always pleasant to find some firm ground. To that end the notion that the use...
My Wife, the Scientist and the Decision Maker
Military professionals are decision makers and to do that well, they need to be able to employ a variety of different decision making techniques. Can...
Feeling Lucky? Make your own luck.
Listening to some of my Team talking over coffee the subject turned – as it often does – to careers. ‘He is such a lucky...
Wargaming in the Reserve
Wargaming has significant utility to enhance training within the Army Reserve. It offers professionally engaging and conceptually challenging training with low resource costs. Additionally, it...
The British Army has a Blackbelt in ‘Bullshito’
‘Therefore no plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force’ but often misquoted as ‘No plan survives...
Post-Industrial Civil-Military Relations
An oft-told joke about Russian conventional military capabilities in its Far East holds that were China to invade, the People’s Liberation Army would have a...
Decolonising Professional Military Education
Decolonizing as a project and practice has generated renewed attention since the global Black Lives Matter protests’ demands for a far-reaching engagement with the structural...
Building an Effective Indigenous Counter-Insurgency Force – Part 2
During their occupation of India, the British built one of the most effective indigenous military forces in history, the British Indian Army. This is not to...