A Military Transformed? A New Book from Helion and Compnay
In November 2013, a book will be published. It is my first book. Well to be honest I am one of the co-editors with two friends, Stuart Mitchell and Michael […]
Category Archives: Military Transformation and Innovation
Forgetting the Western Front? The Adaptation or Eradication of Military Experience
Whilst scoping out some case studies for my research, I stumbled across an interesting reference to the arrival of Indian cavalry regiments in Palestine in 1918. Part of my PhD […]
Military Transformation in Crisis – The Future of Britain’s 21st Century Armed Forces
Britain’s armed forces are currently facing the most challenging period of change since the Second World War. Two significant and unpopular conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have exposed British warfighters […]
Re-evaluation of Wartime Communications: British Despatch Riders and Communications Reliability during the Second World War
Communication has long been an essential part of successful warfare. General Sir Anthony Farrer-Hockley wrote that he knew ‘of no military operations which were not dependent to one degree or […]
British Aero-Naval Co-Operation in the Mediterranean and the Formation of RAF No. 201 (Naval Co-Operation) Group
[Cross posted at The Aerodrome] Created in October 1941, RAF No. 201 (Naval Co-operation) Group existed as an independent unit until February 1944, with a complex mechanism of control shared […]
Operation JUBILEE and the Transformation of Air Support for Combined Operations: The Case of Command and Control and Aerial Bombardment
[Cross posted at The Aerodrome] Operation JUBILEE, the raid on Dieppe on 19 August 1942, has remained an area of intensive and divisive debate amongst historians. Debate remains over questions […]
‘From ‘Jock Column’ to Armoured Column: Transformation and Change in British and Commonwealth Unit Tactics in the Western Desert, January 1941 to November 1942
This chapter looks at the various factors that influenced the transformation of offensive tactics in the Western Desert Force (later Eighth Army) of the British Army, from more conventional doctrines […]
‘Despised and Neglected’: Transformation and Innovation in British Air Defence, 1922-1935
[Cross posted at The Aerodrome] The conventional wisdom is that British air defence was, in A. J. P. Taylor’s words, ‘despised and comparatively neglected before the war’ and that victory […]
