You must train for war fighting: anything else is a waste of resources. The British Army has been given a clear mission by its chief. Mobilise for a potential fight against Russia in Europe. Soon. Peter talks to Major General Chris Barry, Director Land Warfare Centre in Warminster and it is clear that there is no going back to BAOR processes and procedures: The future of military training is building the ability to be successful in a 21stCentury combined arms battle. Necessarily that includes pretty much every element of an army from logistics, engineers, MPs, and medics, to armoured infantry, aviation, and artillery. And the change depends on many variable factors that have been changed irrecoverably by a myriad of small decisions implemented since the 1990s. Thus, this change is coming from the bottom up – not only wary of history, but also of observations from contemporary conflict, and cognisant of some technology that is available now. Given the mission, waiting for the arrival of big-ticket items (tanks, IFVs, arty, drones, et al) just won’t work: that recapitalisation will not have arrived in the given the timeline. So, training a force that is fit to fight (that includes the basics of wearing helmets, signature management, and practiced at digging trenches and foxholes), must get the force to a baseline (mission zero) and add value above that. CTTP is clearly a critical part of that: a keystone that will radically change the gearing of what LWC can deliver. Delaying the decision on CTTP simply doesn’t help national security.