The More Things Change
It is always interesting to compare and contrast the ‘language of defence’ used today and in time past. This is from June 1981 and the
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It is always interesting to compare and contrast the ‘language of defence’ used today and in time past. This is from June 1981 and the
One of the fundamental difficulties faced by any strategic defence review is trying to understand what the future holds. As we know, the future is
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
In the loosely themed SDSR 2015 series of posts I started with a look at the depressing inevitably of leaks, service-centric opinion pieces and general
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.
In a game of chess, there are two priorities; protect your king, to prevent yourself from being defeated, and checkmate the enemy’s king to win the game. In geopolitics, each nation must assess its priorities and ensure it upholds them to avoid defeat.
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
The ongoing struggle in Ukraine and its resultant debate is merely an indicator of a larger question that Europe seems increasingly unable to answer. Ukraine
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