David Hume Footsoldier 6 posts 17 comments

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 what then are we to make of SDSR 15 and of General Houghton’s Christmas RUSI speech…

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 word SDSR 15 submissions I thought it would be worthwhile to look at similar exercises that were…

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…

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 internal publication of Army Doctrine Note 15/01 “Integrated Action”. Integrated Action will be…

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 ongoing events in the Ukraine, nod sagely and say ‘Hybrid warfare, don’t you know”.…

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 them in thinking about it. Military blogging is experiencing something of a renaissance at the…