Virtuous Decision-Making in War: ‘The good operation’

Saturday, February 10, 2018 - 22:45 (EEST) Section: Royal United Services Institute (UK)

The new Ministry of Defence pamphlet on joint political-military decision-making merely scratches the surface of what seems to be a peculiarly British issue of poor performance in this area.Download the article (PDF)As was remarked by a participant in a closed-door, off-the-record RUSI seminar on political military decision-making on 11 October 2017, ‘every diplomat wants to be the proconsul; every general seeks the decisive battle’.The publication on 18 January 2018 of the Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) pamphlet titled ‘The good operation’ is the result of two years of work by a team that has examined the details of the Report of …read more

Source: Royal United Services Institute (UK)