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135976
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As the global security environment becomes increasingly complex and world leaders are less and less willing to fund defence capabilities, the key question is how senior defence and military leaders can better prepare themselves to analyse the strategic environment and avoid misfortune. Charles D Allen and Jeffrey L Groh argue that senior defence leaders need an integrated analytical approach and outline one such developmental framework for learning, anticipating and adapting to emerging challenges in the strategic environment. This framework should be applied to address the security challenges of the twenty-first century
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ID:
135974
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A high level of trust between two parties has long been shown to lead to more efficient and successful outcomes to business transactions. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has traditionally had a confrontational relationship with its suppliers. Yet at the individual and project-team level in the MoD's procurement arm, DE&S, trusting relationships with defence suppliers are often generated. William Meddings and Nigel Jones examine the factors that lead DE&S project teams to trust their suppliers. Their conclusions reinforce the view that trust is overwhelmingly built up by interaction between people rather than organisations.
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ID:
135971
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As the UK's next general election looms closer, so too does the next Strategic Defence and Security Review. The last such review exercise in 2010 provoked extensive and widespread criticism – related to both its process and its outcomes. However, what was not called into question was the fundamental assumption on which the whole exercise rested: that the UK should maintain its full-spectrum expeditionary posture. James de Waal argues that, while the nuts and bolts of defence policy continue to be important, there is a much more significant, substantive debate to be had about the type of defence policy the UK should pursue.
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ID:
135970
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Ongoing rivalries between members of the Gulf Cooperation Council make it an ineffective player in the region’s security When allies face serious external threats, their disagreements are often sidelined in order to promote a more visibly united front. Indeed, internal and external challenges recently prompted the six Arab monarchies of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman and Bahrain to announce the formation of a joint military command. However, Yoel Guzansky argues that, as past experience indicates, this initiative might remain hostage to intra-Gulf Cooperation Council rivalries and make only a marginal contribution to Gulf security.
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ID:
135975
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Offset has been a feature of the international arms market for decades, and seems likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. Monica Herrera and Ron Matthews examine the phenomenon in Latin America, where growth in national income has driven accelerated defence industrialisation and leveraged a plethora of local country offset programmes.
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ID:
135972
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The UK's 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review asserted that there would be no ‘strategic shrinkage’ despite the significant cuts to be made to the defence budget, and thus to the country's military instrument. However, Robert Fry argues that this claim has since been shown to be unrealistic; indeed, the UK is suffering from a growing ‘strategic deficit’ – a gap between its ambitions and the means with which to fulfil them. What is needed, therefore, is not just a reassessment of the UK's national power, but a new understanding of power itself.
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135969
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If the West is to defeat the self-proclaimed Islamic State, it must understand the reasons for the success of the group’s information warfare. The success of the Islamic State throughout the ‘fertile crescent’ is a striking example of a modern insurgency, and information operations have played a central role in the group's strategy. Drawing on primary sources, Haroro J Ingram analyses three traits of the Islamic State's information warfare: the use of a multidimensional, multi-platform approach that simultaneously targets ‘friends and foes’ to enhance the reach, relevance and resonance of its messaging; the synchronisation of narrative and action to maximise operational and strategic ‘effects’ in the field; and the centrality of the Islamic State ‘brand’ to its entire campaign.
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ID:
135977
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In early 2014, the Theatre Royal Stratford East presented a revival of Oh! What a Lovely War, Joan Littlewood's famous musical about the First World War. Michael Codner looks back at the musical's sources, with an overview of a century of popular music and soldiers’ songs, recalling both their humour and their bleakness.
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ID:
135973
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Contemporary Western publics have a shifting perception of the role of the warrior, which reflects the profound changes in the relationship between society and the armed forces over the course of the twentieth century. Max Hastings reflects on realities and misconceptions of the soldier in twenty-first-century Britain, the reductive categories of hero or victim, and the support that the armed forces and wider society provide to the UK's veterans.
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