Tag: Army
The Future of the British Army 04 – Structures
It would be the easiest thing in the world to write a post that demanded more, more people, more money and more equipment but as painful as shrinkage is, it is simply unavoidable. Having watched a medal ceremony on the TV tonight it brought home how the Army, like the other services, are not really [...]
The Army Makes Its Resource Play
You would have had to be as reclusive as Gadaffi this week not to have noticed the Army making its play for future budgets. Widely predicted to be being lined up for a serious cut post Afghanistan, maybe even further than FF20, it is, as they say, getting its digs in early. Various articles in [...]
The Future of the British Army 03 – Rank and Size
The first part of this post is to challenge a few assumptions and ask a few questions, I don’t have the answers but thought it might be an interesting exercise in challenging the accepted wisdom. We make the assumption that land forces have to be organised in hierarchical formations of units, sub units, HQ’s, brigades, [...]
The Future of the British Army 02 – Tasks and Capabilities
Future Force 2020 set out a list of objectives, tasks and force levels that post Afghanistan, in the land of budgetary milk and honey, the services would evolve into. Personally, I think the perennial strategy of hoping for jam tomorrow is hugely naive, it isn’t going to happen yet FF20 makes the assumption that the [...]
The Future of the British Army 01 – Scene Setting
Having built up a bit of momentum with the RN and RAF series it has been pretty difficult to get into the Land domain and by taking a service centric structure it has exposed the weakness of thinking along these strictly service lines. If we look at almost any operation it is obvious that no [...]
Warthog and Lynx Mk 9A
Interesting couple of videos I thought worth sharing Interesting to see an electro optical turret fitted The Royal Tank Regiment and Scots Dragoon Guards have swapped their Challengers for Warthogs, this allows them to use their manouver and armour deployment skills to maximum advantage
The Future of the British Army – Ideas and Suggestions
We are about to embark on the ‘Future of the British Army’ series of posts, for convenience, this will include all land oriented forces including the Royal Marines and RAF Regiment. As usual, the floor is open for guest authors on more or less any relevant subject they fancy writing about. These are a few subject [...]
The Kalmar RT240 Rough Terrain Container Handler
Its about time we got back to containers but this time I thought a look at how they are moved by a single remarkable piece of equipment would be interesting. In the late nineties the US Army recognised the need to take advantage of civilian containerisation and issued an operational requirements document to which Kalmar, [...]
The Anti Structure Munition
From the ISAF Flickr photostream this week was an image of the Irish Guards on patrol in Helmand British soldiers from 2nd Company, 1st Battalion, Irish Guards help each other climb up the side of a canal during an operation near the village of Pasab, Afghanistan, March 5. Taking the less popular routes in the [...]
The Future Of…
Time for a recap and look forward. When I kicked off this series of posts there was no overarching master plan and to be perfectly honest, there still isn’t, remember, this is just a blog and not a learned paper or piece of service writing but the benefit of using a blog format is the [...]
A Nation of Shopkeepers
Napoleon was said to have called the English a nation of shopkeepers and with a story appearing in the Sunday Telegraph today he may well have been right because if after the withdrawal from Afghanistan the Army is whittled down the 80,000 personnel it will be at its smallest since the year after he died. [...]
The Personal Clothing System (PCS)
UK Armed Forces will soon be issued with a new clothing system to replace Combat Soldier 95 (CS95) The original programme to replace CS95 was called Personal Equipment and Common Operational Clothing (PECOC) and this has now evolved into Personal Clothing System (PCS) PECOC had a wide scope, clothing, personal equipment, load carriage and protection. [...]
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