The occasional papers of the Centre for Historical Analysis and Conflict Research.
Ares & Athena – Issue 24 – Agile procurement
“We need to ensure we have a common understanding about our priorities in order to present a consistent narrative around why adapting our procurement...
Ares & Athena – Issue 23
“It is easy to observe that having regular trained soldiers based in London delivering public duties isn’t a particularly cost effective use of our...
Ares & Athena – Issue 22
“As we dwell on Putin, Ukraine, and the hasty thinking that generated the reaction in the CHACR that has resulted in this publication, one...
Ares & Athena – Issue 21
Thinking about thinking - the power of the conceptual component
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Ares & Athena – Issue 20
"Politics and political leadership will change, public perceptions will ebb and flow, Army leadership will change, world events will evolve and erupt, but our...
Ares & Athena – Issue 19
"Although it would be folly to not remain conscious and cognisant of the other threats and challenges that currently exist globally and those that...
Ares & Athena – Issue 17
“Don’t mention the war!” shouts a panicking Basil Fawlty in one of the best-known episodes of Fawlty Towers. Clearly in the 1970s, 30 years...
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...
Ares & Athena – Issue 15
The House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee released a report on China in April 2019, with the name “China and the Rules-Based International System”....
Ares & Athena – Issue 14
Both the previous and the current professional heads of the British Army believe that failure in warfare is as much about being out-thought as...