Watling
Dr Jack
Research Fellow, Land Warfare
Dr Jack Watling is a Research Fellow at RUSI, responsible for the study of Land Warfare. Jack has recently published detailed studies of the British Army's Strike Concept, achieving lethal effects with small UAVs, Iran's strategic objectives and its capabilities, and British training and assistance programmes in Yemen between 2004-2015. He is currently working on allied integration into Multi-Domain Operations, and the Future of Fires, among other projects.
Jack's PhD examined the evolution of Britain's policy responses to civil war in the early twentieth century. Prior to joining RUSI Jack worked in Iraq, Mali, Rwanda, Brunei, and further afield, embedded with Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces, and the Burkina Faso Army. Originally a journalist he has contributed to Reuters, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, the Guardian, Jane's Intelligence Review, Haaretz, and others. Jack was shortlisted for the European Press Prize Distinguished Writing Award in 2016, and won the Breakaway Award at the International Media Awards in 2017.
Military Sciences Land Warfare
Britain's Declining Tank Numbers Highlights a Wider Problem
The current debate about Britain's shrinking numbers of main battle tanks obscures the need for a much deeper discussion about the country'...
Tags: Armed Forces, Defence Spending, Equipment and Acquisitions, Global Strategy and Commitments, Military Sciences, UK, UK Defence, Europe
Allies in the Multi-Domain Task Force
The scale and highly integrated nature of the US's Multi-Domain Operations concept for future warfare requires coordination, mutual...
Tags: US Defence Policy, NATO, Military Sciences, RUSI Defence Systems, Martial Power Programme
""You need three times as many men as the enemy when attacking," he said. "A battalion that is missing 10% of its strength can probably compensate for the shortfall. Having lost 30%, you are not going to be able to generate the combat power to stand up to two enemy battalions, even in the defence." "
UK frontline troop numbers down by as much as a third
Tags: UK Defence Policy, Military Sciences, UK
""It's not surprising that we've seen groups like this break away. There have been arrests and infighting inside the Badr organisation over the past few months," Mr Watling told The National. "
Iraq: powerful Shiite party faces splinter group
Tags: Iraq, Military Sciences, Middle East and North Africa
"According to Jack Watling, a land warfare expert at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in London, the UAE's Chinese drone purchases began after the the U.S. refused to sell them American armed UAVs. Now, he says, "the (President Donald) Trump administration has reduced its threshold for sale, which partly happened after the UAE started its Chinese drone purchases.""
Pentagon is scrambling as China 'sells the hell out of' armed drones to US allies
Tags: Aerospace, China, United States, Military Sciences
Iran's Objectives and Capabilities: Deterrence and Subversion
This Occasional Paper explores Iran's foreign policy objectives through a strategic lens, considering strengths, weaknesses, and proxy...
Tags: Civil–Military Relations, Iran's Nuclear Programme, Iran, Occasional Papers, Global Strategy and Commitments, Military Sciences, Defence Management, Defence Policy, Global Security Issues, Military Personnel, Terrorism, Middle East and North Africa