Last week, the new head of the Army, General Sir Roly Walker, warned that war may be much closer than we think. Is our military ready? Two years ago, a syndicate of young officers published an article on the extreme shortage of division and brigade-level training in the British Army. Since then, the amount of larger-scale training has improved somewhat, despite a general resource shortage, but a form-filling safety regime has developed in our armed forces in the past decade which makes our army less combat ready.