When I was a staff officer in the Headquarters British Forces Middle East (HQBFME) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, during the Gulf War of 1991, we had a then cutting edge IT network installed under an “urgent operational requirement” which was called the Desert Interim CIS System (DICS). Every time the Iraqis lobbed one of their Scud missiles at Riyadh – which happened on sixteen occasions in total – a warning would flash on our computerContinue reading “The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World – By Tim Marshall. Elliott and Thompson Limited, ISBN 978 1 78396 687 5, 238 pages, £20.00 (hardback).”
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Babcock to support British Army with electric vehicle conversion and trials
Babcock International Group (Babcock), the defence company, has been awarded a one-year contract by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) to help the British Army understand the Defence application and constraints of electric propulsion. Partnering with Electric Vehicles (EV) experts, Electrogenic, Babcock will convert four in-service military Land Rovers, two protected vehicles and two general service, from diesel fuelled to EV using a drop-in kit and modified battery system. The vehicles will then be putContinue reading “Babcock to support British Army with electric vehicle conversion and trials”
The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change our World
Leading authority on foreign affairs, Tim Marshall has written his latest highly-anticipated next book, The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change our World. There is a very prescient chapter in the book where Tim gives a moment-by-moment fictional account of what could happen should a Chinese satellite be shot down by the US – reminiscent of the recent Chinese balloon incident (the same scenario, just many kilometres closer toContinue reading “The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change our World”
New Report – Unwrapping the Riddle of Defence Acquisition in the UK
Risk management consultancy Redstone Risk has published a report – Unwrapping the Riddle of Defence Acquisition in the United Kingdom – which they say, “sets out the fundamental changes required to optimise defence acquisition in the United Kingdom”. Redstone Risk argues that current UK defence acquisition is ‘requirements’-led, based on reforms from the late-90s, which government had intended to be a ‘faster, cheaper and better’ way to procure equipment. The report argues that theContinue reading “New Report – Unwrapping the Riddle of Defence Acquisition in the UK”