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How Prepared Are You?

After a significant period of seeding the information environment over the summer, the British Government appears to have finally started its ‘national conversation on resilience’ in earnest, with some on-the-record comments from Defence Se...

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How Not To Die on the Modern Battlefield

‘Protection’ is one of the key military functions in British military doctrine, aiming to ensure the survivability of the force and enable it to carry out its mission. In my former military career as a Royal Engineer, protection and surviva...

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Policemen with Tanks

As both a former soldier and as a researcher, I’ve long had an odd interest in the concept of the state paramilitary – an armed force that is somewhere between the police and regular military, designed for internal security.1 This is partly...

14 days ago
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Putin’s Bombardment of Kyiv, Experienced First-Hand

This can be considered a more personal follow-up to my Warsight article, which analysed the dynamics of the Russian bombardment and Ukrainian countermeasures.


I hear a horrible whining sound in the distance. It sounds like a diving...

19 days ago
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The Severe Vulnerabilities of Today’s British Army

I recently contributed to a call for evidence on the state of the British Armed Forces. As such, I thought that I would expand on some of the contributions I made and put them into a single article. This is based on my own experiences as a...

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    🇬🇧 Former soldier. Accidental defence journalist. Adjunct Fellow at the Council on Geostrategy. Thoughts & feelings on defence and other things. Not always serious. Views my own.

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