French Army Approaches to High Intensity Warfare in the 21st Century
Since well before Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the British defense community has been struggling to reach a consensus about the direction the United...
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Calling time on cyber war
The illegal Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 left the world aghast at the realization that decades of security stability in Europe have ended....
How Britain should deal with Russia going forward
The Kremlin’s war in Ukraine threatens to tear up the map of post-1989 Europe and plunge the world into a new Cold War. The unpredictability...
Silence, Starvation and Savagery: Countering Putin’s Brutal One-Two-Three
Putin has a one-two-three tactic to subdue Ukraine. The first blow silences, takes people’s voice, destroying mobile phone towers, cutting off communications. Then, when no-one...
Russia’s Tactical Nuclear Weapons
In 2015 a prominent Russian specialist advised me to never underestimate Russia’s intentions regarding Tactical Nuclear Weapon (TNW). Since 1991 Russian developments within TNW doctrine...
Ukraine, the Integrated Review & Land Power in Europe
Since the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, and indeed in the build-up to the invasion, the reactionariat on Twitter and in the media have been...
What is to be done? Ukraine and the IR
Putin’s horrific and appalling escalation of his conflict in Ukraine has killed the UK’s Integrated Review in all but name. Although its strategic analysis was...
How the West is starting to win the disinformation war
In the run up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. declassified an unprecedent amount of intelligence regarding how Putin was going to justify his...
No Fly Zones
Poland’s surprise offer of sending fighter jets looks at a glance like an innovative idea to boost Ukraine’s air defences but the Unites States’ rejection...
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The Disintegrated Review? Britain and the Ukraine Crisis
The more pessimistic strategic planners and security wonks in the UK could, if they were so inclined, play a depressing game of bingo around the...