Despite ending over 8 decades ago the legacy of WW2 lives on in the Western mind, media and public discourse about Defence and Military subjects. Has this left us less prepared to deal with the conflicts of the modern era and the associated defence planning, procurement and tactics required therein.

Our speaker, Prof. Andrew Stewart, is Director of Conflict Research at the Centre for Historical Analysis and Conflict Research, the British Army’s think-tank. An Honorary Professor at the Australian National University in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre and a Visiting Professor in King’s College London’s School of Security Studies, he was previously Director of Academic Studies at the Royal College of Defence Studies and Principal at the Australian War College. Most recently he was a faculty member at the Royal Danish Defence College. His research covers twentieth century and contemporary conflict and he has published more than thirty-five books, co-edited books, book chapters and peer-reviewed and magazine articles.


What is in it for me?

1. Are we Strategically Inflexibility and fixated by Legacy Alliances?

2. Are our Logistics and Mobility Challenges, Doctrinal Rigidity and Command and Control Complexity products of a by-gone age

3. Are we still wedded to Technological Over-Reliance?

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