The Emperors New Combats
Military fashion delivers more than its fair share of acronyms and buzzwords, in a game of bullshit bingo the card would need to be the size of a newspaper. As …
Why Things Don’t Happen – RN underfunding
Out today from RUSI is a paper from Vice-Admiral Sir Jeremy Blackham KCB and Gwyn Prins from the LSE that makes a case for spending on the Royal
Pallets and Containers
Completing our look at logistics I am going to delve into the complex world of pallets. Anyone thinking that pallet dimensions would be coordinated with …
FDR – Land (Towards Vehicle Coherence Part 3)
Any discussion on vehicle coherence should logically be proceeded by the finalisation of doctrine and their resultant structures; do we go down the medium …
FDR – Land (Towards Vehicle Coherence Part 2)
In Part 1 of this series I looked out the disadvantages of having too many types of vehicle fulfilling similar roles and with similar capabilities. To start …
FDR – LAND (Towards Vehicle Coherence – Part 1)
The desire to consolidate the Army’s vehicle fleet is about more than mere neatness, the more vehicle types we have, the more we need vehicle mechanics to be …
FDR – Land (Logistics and Combat Service Support #3)
In the last of the series on logistics I am going to look at containerisation and trucks, sorry it’s a bit long The Army is generally moving towards a …
FDR – Land (Logistics and Combat Service Support #2)
The Royal Logistic Corps is making a huge contribution to operations in Afghanistan, however, the overall MoD wide management of supply chain accounting has …
FDR – Land (Logistics and Combat Service Support #1)
The Royal Logistics Corps is not nicknamed the Really Large Corps for nothing; it is the single largest element of the British Army and was formed in 1993 by …
FDR Land – (Artillery)
For clarity, I have decided to call this post ‘artillery’ rather than anything trendy like joint fires or air land integration. Artillery has had a …
A New Approach to our FDR Posts
In the final few FDR posts left before I start a consolidation and presentation exercise (which will resurrect the Wiki) I am going to structure them in two …
We Have to be Ready For Anything
An interesting article from Alexander Woolfson in the Standpoint Magazine The most famous post-war assessment of Britain’s international position came in …
Gonna Get Me Some Cold War Relics
What with the massed ranks of analysts, defence journalists and coalition politicians gunning for those thousands of cold war relics we have sitting idle just …
Nick Harvey Opens His Mouth
Some choice quotes from Nick Harvey MP speaking at the RUSI Future Maritime Operations Conference today. He starts by evoking the memory of Richard Haldane and …
Upcoming FDR (LAND) Posts
Whilst we are still discussing FRES SV, a quick heads up for some of the articles/posts coming up Air defence Indirect fire and air land integration Close …
Defence Acquisition and the SDSR
By Peter Luff MP, Minister for Defence Equipment, Support and Technology This is an abridged version of a speech given at the DVD 2010 show on 23rd June
Think Defence FDR – The Story so Far
It’s been 8 months (I know!) since I started the Think Defence FDR series of posts and we have covered a wide variety of topics with a number of authors …
RUSI – A Question of Balance
Number 7 in RUSI’s Future Defence Review has been published (thanks to Jedibeeftrix for letting us know and providing some analysis) In the paper, Malcolm …
What to Cut
Are we seriously considering getting rid of infantry battalions, cutting back on T3 and putting the CVF in doubt when we have the Red Arrows, 20 odd military …
FDR – Littoral #3
In the previous post on littoral concepts I looked at the higher speed options, raiding craft and hovercraft. In this post I am going to look at complimentary …