Category Archives: Lt. Col . Stuart Crawford

f the Ukraine war has taught us anything about high-tempo conventional warfare between peer adversaries, it is that numbers matter. That Russia has been able to continue its assault despite significant losses in men and materiel speaks to the value of having a large inventory, particularly of replacement armoured fighting vehicles (AFVs). This article isContinue reading “Quality or Quantity? The Tank Conundrum”

The UK’s Ministry of Defence has proposed that there should be a judge-led inquiry into allegations of illegal killings of Afghan men in Afghanistan in 2010-11 by the SAS. This follows the broadcast by the BBC’s Panorama programme entitled “SAS Death Squads Exposed”, a journalistic investigation of the activities of that particular unit at theContinue reading “Inquiry Into SAS Operations”

Westminster’s Defence Select Committee has just published its report into the Government’s Integrated Defence and Security Review, which was published back in March 2021 before the withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Their report is highly critical of the Review in several areas. First and foremost it notes that it has notContinue reading “Defence Select Committee Report”

Multiple sources are now reporting that the war in Ukraine is about to enter a new phase. After the Russian attempts on Kyiv and Kharkiv, which were both repulsed, their renewed focus on the Donbas region is now grinding to a halt. Despite their superiority in men and particularly in artillery, the Russians are nowContinue reading “Ukraine Update”

Ukraine Update Multiple sources are now reporting that the war in Ukraine is about to enter a new phase. Speculation is mounting that Ukraine is on the cusp of mounting a strategic counter-offensive in the south with the aim of retaking the Kherson oblast and threatening the Russian occupation of Crimea, which they annexed inContinue reading “Crawford’s International Defence Review w/e 29th July 2022”