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 CHACR'S PURPOSE
The CHACR conducts and sponsors research and analysis into the enduring nature and changing character of conflict on land and is an active hub for scholarship and debate within the Army to develop and sustain the Army’s conceptual component of fighting power
FEATURED PUBLICATIONS
22 May 2020 – Where Academic and Military Dialogues go Wrong,...
Written by Dr Ziya Meral
This work is strictly the view of the author, not the British Army and Ministry of Defence.
A while ago, I...
20 May 2020 – CHACR Weekly Take Away Newsletter: Issue 9
This is the ninth issue of the weekly CHACR Take Away newsletter. In these newsletters, you will find links to the latest products by...
21 May 2020: CHACR Take Away Interview – Lebanon with...
In this episode of CHACR Take Away in depth conversations, Dr Ziya Meral interviews Dr Lina Khatib (Chatham House) on Lebanon. The discussion covers...
Podcast: CHACR Take Away Interviews Episode 8 – Lebanon with Lina...
This is the eighth episode of CHACR Take Away Interviews turned into a podcast.
In this episode of CHACR Take Away in depth conversations, Dr...
6 May 2020 – The Spanish Flu and the First World...
The influenza pandemic, also known as the Spanish Flu, which hit the World the 1918 and lasted until 1920, was the deadliest outbreak of...
Ares & Athena – Issue 16
NATO, we are repeatedly told by politicians and the denizens of both the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Ministry of Defence, sits at...
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 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.
