Clausewitz

Why was the British army so ill-prepared to fight the second world war?

13 January 2024 9:00 am

After 1918, the general staff ceased to focus on who they might have to fight next and how, leading to the abysmal performance of the army in Norway and France in 1940

Paratroopers are dropped to reinforce trapped French troops at Dien Bien Phu, 1954

Hubris made the 20th century the bloodiest in history

5 December 2015 9:00 am

Sir Alistair Horne, like that other great knight of military history, Sir Michael Howard, served in the Coldstream Guards during…