Euclid's Army: Preparing Land Forces for Warfare Today

There has been much talk in recent years about the future of land warfare and the shape, size and composition of land forces needed to prosecute a modern war.  Rejecting much of the conventional wisdom William F Owen challenges many of the mainstream ideas about the future of land warfare and how it should be conducted.

Based on his experience working with the British Army and industry, he takes a back to basics approach based on limited budgets, limited resources and an overall reduction in cost, weight and complexity to comprehensively understand how armies might or should equip, train and organise for any unknowable future. “Euclid’s Army” reformulates how soldiers, civil servants and politicians should think about land warfare, thus war in general.

What is in it for me? 

1. You can’t predict the future, so how you fight is more important than why, when, where, or against whom.

2. Don’t have…