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4 August 2020 – CHACR Weekly Take Away Newsletter Issue 19
This is the 19th issue of the weekly CHACR Take Away newsletter. In these newsletters, you will find links to the latest products by...
Climate Conversations: Climate Change and British Defence with Lt Gen (Ret.)...
The latest episode of Climate Conversations features retired Lt Gen Richard Nugee, who currently serves as the Non-Executive Director for Climate Change for Defence...
Podcast: CHACR Take Away Interview Episode 13 – The Assad Regime...
This is the 13th episode of CHACR Take Away Interviews turned into a podcast.
In this episode, Dr Ziya Meral interviews Sam Dagher (author of...
Western Front Battlefield Guide
Today’s visitor to the Western Front sees a landscape that has been permanently changed by the fighting of the First World War. The signs...
Ares & Athena – Issue 21
Thinking about thinking - the power of the conceptual component
Read online above or click here to download a copy to your desktop.
British Army Review Special Report Spring 2020 ‘The Yugoslav Wars’
The British Army Review (BAR) has published a Special Report on 'The Yugoslav Wars'.
As with most of the BAR Special Reports the material within...
The British Army Review is the Army’s own professional journal and is intended to provide a forum for the discussion of all matters of professional interest to the soldier. Articles are invited from all ranks and from others having a special knowledge of or interest in military affairs.
The views expressed in all the products, articles and papers produced by the CHACR are always those of the various authors, and thus not a reflection of any officially held view, be it of the British Army or wider Defence or Government.
The chief purpose of the CHACR is to gather and present a wide range of views and perspectives to inform the Army, contributing to decisions concerning future strategy, concepts, capability and operations. The CHACR’s primary activity is to study the enduring nature and changing character of conflict on land by conducting a systematic programme of research and analysis into past and current (and possible future) operations.
It also acts as a hub for engagement with academics and think-tanks, and for promoting internal study of the profession of arms, thereby helping to enhance the Army’s ‘conceptual component’. In this role the CHACR acts as a forum for debate on matters relevant to the Army, enabling military personnel and other experts to express their views freely and securely. It also supports an array of conceptual activities, ranging from staff rides and battlefield studies to the editorship of the British Army’s internal professional journal, The British Army Review.
In all of the above roles the CHACR acts not just as a champion for individual ‘soldier-scholars’, but as a catalyst for the promotion of a ‘brains-based’ approach throughout the Army. In short, the CHACR promotes the notion that it is as important to ensure that an army is not out-thought as it is to ensure that it is not out-fought.
The independence and objectivity of the CHACR enables it to fulfil a critical analysis role, challenging conventional wisdom and testing evolving concepts and proposed plans.
