CDR ANDREW LIVSEY RN DIRECTOR, ROYAL NAVAL DIVISION, JSCSC By the Editor – This edition has several articles on the PWO course celebrating its 50th anniversary. This one provides the background. Quite a few of the ideas for improving the course have been tried several times before. A 15 minute read. Navies fight how they train. Among the most important determinants of how the Royal Navy fought and operated for the last fifty years has been the Principal Warfare Officer (PWO) course, which trains an officer to direct a warship at war and on operations. This article explains why the course was c…
