Defence Capacity Building
First Ramadi, then Konduz and now Sangin looks decidedly suspect. The West’s track record of building armies to fight its wars is looking suspect. So
January 5, 2016
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SDSR 15 – Following Boldly On
One of the hallmarks of a good officer is the ability to plagiarise with confidence. To that end as we all eagerly honehone our 300
August 20, 2015
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The Management of Savagery
The Management of Savagery” is much more than the A-Z of how to establish a caliphate, it is an Islamist justification for the use of violence and in particular of exemplary violence for political (religious) ends. If Afghanistan was about Armed Politics according to Emile Simpson then what we are looking at with “The Management of Savagery” is as much Armed Evangelisation as it is caliphate building according to Abu Bakr Naji.
March 16, 2015
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Introducing 77 Brigade and a New Way Of Business
The arrival of 77 Brigade onto the media scene in January and subsequent media furore overshadowed what to me was the more important news, the
February 19, 2015
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When is a war not a war? When it’s Hybrid.
At the Munich Security Conference last week Angela Merkel was talking Hybrid Warfare. Hybrid warfare is most definitely back in vogue, wise heads point at
February 16, 2015
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The Curious Absence of the British Military Blogger
You don’t get people to think about their profession simply by ordering them to; you get them to think about their profession by engaging with
January 17, 2015
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