By Vice-Admiral Sir Jeremy Blackham and Air Vice-Marshal Andrew L. Roberts for the United Kingdom National Defence Association ( UKNDA ). Introduction Following the 2010 Strategic Defence a
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While mass multiplayer video gaming is still a burgeoning field within the military domain, the concept of serious gaming is not a new one, nor one that has hinged on the development of digital technology. From board games to card games, involving recruits in activities that requires l
At this year’s forthcoming Maritime Reconnaissance and Surveillance conference, the twelfth annual event in the series, much of the focus of the dialogue will turn to Coast Guards and Border Protection agencies, who deal with varying levels of criminal activity in the maritime do
Those who practice medicine in the battlefield routinely and voluntarily put their lives on the line. However, as the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is quick to point out, that does not mean those practitioners are exempt from the right, the need, nor the expectation f
Most battlefield deaths – if government statistics are up to date – occur within the first 10 minutes of wounding. Naturally, every second counts, and so medical planners in the military refer to the window as the “platinum ten minutes”, replacing the concept of
Recently in Fort Worth, officials from the Pentagon, Lockheed Martin and the Australian government gathered to celebrate the fact that two F-35 fighter jets bound for our ally down under were rolling off the assembly line. If you’ve followed the news about this plane over the pas