The ‘Art of Admiralty’ and the digital Black Jellyfish

By Lt Cdr Jonathan Wheale RN

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The author highlights the need for digital mastery to protect against the ‘black jellyfish’ of information age threats: for the Art of Admiralty to succeed it must be extended into the digital realm. A 10 minute read

Black Jellyfish are issues we think we know about and understand, but which turn out to be more complex and uncertain, sometimes with a long tail and nasty sting at the end.1Global Strategic Trends, The Future Starts Today, 6th edition, MoD, p. 14 They are likely to have the greatest impact. The term of course is an extension of the ‘Black Swan’ concept: a commonly used metaphor describing the disproportionate effect of previously unobserved, high impact, hard to predict and rare events. The Art of Admiralty, described by Professor Andrew Lambert as “the sustained development and promotion of…

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