Britain – Between a rock and a hard place
NATO, Brexit and the United States – Hard times for Britain. Britain has enjoyed a revival on the global stage since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine...
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What Russia wants – and what it means for Britain
Hours before flying to Kazakhstan last week, trucks, troops and armoured vehicles of Russia’s 331st Airborne Regiment lined up in the snow as a drone...
The Submarine Affair: An American Strategic Paradox
Introduction The recent and still ongoing Franco-American crisis surrounding the AUKUS agreement is undoubtedly the most serious one since 2003, when France had refused to...
Legal tiptoeing: the Integrated Review, Data-Sharing, and the EU
Announced on 16 March, The Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy (IR) affirms the UK’s security-related policy decisions for the next decade....
Op Ed: Defence should train more for MACA
This opinion piece argues that Defence needs to re-assess their enduring view of military aid to the civil authority (MACA) tasks and conduct more training...
#WavellReviews “Blood, Metal and Dust: How victory turned to defeat in Afghanistan and Iraq” by Brigadier (retd) Ben Barry
Rather than cutting off when large scale US /UK deployments ended, the author catches the reader up to the current situation as at publication. The...
It’s time to stop “rethinking” women in Ground Close Combat
This article is a rebuttal to an opinion piece the Wavell Room previously published on women in Ground Close Combat Since 2016 the United Kingdom...
War, Combat and Peacekeeping
Why the German Army equips as many Spartans as the British Army When asked what phrase Sandhurst cadets connected most with their future profession most...