Post-‘peace dividend’ and the future of RN warfighting doctrine

By Harry MacNamara

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The Naval Staff Research author argues that the post-Cold War ‘peace dividend’ era has come to an end, necessitating a total reconsideration of defence policy and warfighting doctrine.

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The Royal Navy faces significant challenges both from within and from outside the organisation. These stem from the consequences of the post-Cold War strategic reorientation of the United Kingdom’s Armed Forces towards expeditionary operations: this is also underpinned by the political assumption that the likelihood of conventional state-on-state conflict had, after 1991, declined. 1Theo Farrell, ‘The Dynamics of British Military Transformation’. International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-) 84, no. 4 (2008): p.777. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25144876. This mindset, s…

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