Statecraft Offers a Therapeutic Roadmap for Chaotic Times
"While Statecraft is a detailed, often surgical, book, its overall effect is therapeutic. Reading it one can start to imagine a road map through the crazy car crashes of the post-rules-based world" @peterpomeranzev for the @spectator: https://t.co/YvXDUkJty0
Rethinking How to Measure Lethality in Military Design
The @BritishArmy has been directed to triple its lethality. But how should lethality be measured in force design? Nick Reynolds and I have written a paper on this for @RUSI_org: https://t.co/v4ryyfuoWu
UAV Countermeasures Known; Implementation Remains the Challenge
Lots of discussion of countering UAVs at the moment. @Justin_Br0nk and I published this in 2024: https://t.co/dsSGyI9mfx Lots of others with similar conclusions. The answers have been known for some time - the problem is implementation. @RUSI_org @roberttollast
War's Heavy Toll on Iran: Strait of Hormuz Insights
The heavy cost of the war on Iran, a pleasure to join @gideonrachman for the @FinancialTimes Rachman Review this morning to discuss the Strait of Hormuz and Statecraft: https://t.co/1jwObwwqwN
Reducing Hormuz Shipping Threat Demands Resources, Political Resolve
I write for the @Telegraph on the military challenges in re-opening the Strait of Hormuz. BLUF: the threat to shipping can be reduced but eliminating it is very resource intensive and can only be made permanent through politics: https://t.co/N9pN5Z9XmD
Iran's Hormuz Blockade Challenges Trump and Israel
Iran’s Hormuz blockade is its most powerful card against Trump and Israel. It won’t back down easily, I write for @guardian on the divergence of US political and military objectives: https://t.co/NGYTJl2Wya
Discussing Strait of Hormuz on Telegraph Podcast, Previewing Statecraft
Had the pleasure of joining the @Telegraph Battlelines Podcast today for a discussion on the Strait of Hormuz and my forthcoming book, Statecraft: https://t.co/L5zYIEHQpO
Invest in Industry, Control Weapon Costs, Not Choice
Mass Versus Exquisite Weaponry is a Partially False Dichotomy, I write for @RUSI_org on how we have agency in determing the relative unit price of weaponry by investing in our industrial base: https://t.co/zSsbav6DjE None of it is cheap without the...
Ukraine Urges UAE to Curb Russian Revenue, Shares Drone Tech
Ukraine could well ask that the UAE show some reciprocal good will by reducing its systemic enablement of Russian revenue generation.
Join RUSI Talk on Whitehall Statecraft, March 19
If you are a @RUSI_org member and in London on 19 March, I will be discussing my forthcoming book 'Statecraft' with David Hogan-Hern on Whitehall, 1730-1830: https://t.co/xgrWvqlY5x
Russia’s Ukraine Aggression Will Persist Through 2026.
Unfortunately I do not think the current peace talks will succeed. Russia’s Aggression in Ukraine Will Persist Through 2026, I write on the eve of the full-scale invasion's 5th year for @RUSI_org: https://t.co/07MiuESdu2
2‑Year Postdoc in Uncrewed Systems at Swedish Defence University
Great opportunity for a 2-year post doctoral position at the Swedish Defence University here for those working on uncrewed systems: https://t.co/CYy5Wnh91N
New Power Rules for States Facing Reshaping Adversaries
Statecraft: The New Rules of Power in a Divided World To be published 19 March 2026 My new book on how states can pursue strategies when adversaries are powerful enough to reshape the assumptions on which they are premised. https://t.co/vmWAPrLGun