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 […]
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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
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 […]
[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 […]
Here is another abstract from our forthcoming book. ————————————————————————————————————————— Disputes concerning the structure of the British Armies in France (BAF),[1] alongside a concomitant disagreement over manpower provision, rumbled on during […]
Another abstract from our forthcoming book. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— In his wartime memoir, Captain Gerald Burgoyne declared that the red tabs of the staff were ‘the insignia of hopeless inefficiency’. The performance […]
Here is another abstract from the fortcoming book on Transformation and Innovation in the British Military ————————————————————————————————————————————————— In light of the historiographical consensus regarding the innovative dominance displayed by the […]
Here is the latest abstract from our forthcoming book. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- In 1900, most steamships were powered by coal, but the initial steps towards the use of oil had been taken. […]
