The competition for a commercial strategic partner for the British Army as part of the Land Training System continues. The real question that emerges is not one of cost or value but rather about what this will feel like for a corporal or a captain after a year of commercial/military partnering....

Over the past 12 months the British Army has designed a model to train its entire force to a set standard. It will also have the credibility and capacity to train the follow-on force, whatever that is, when the time comes. The new way of training is built on three interlinked blocks – Tradewinds...

Peter sits down with two officers from the British Army who had just completed the culminating exercise of the Captain's Warfare Course. The discussion happened in a field on Salisbury Plain as the rest of the team tore down the infrastructure and camp around us.  The difference these two...