Cassandra Shouting From Semaphore Tower in an Age of Indifference

Cassandra Shouting From Semaphore Tower in an Age of Indifference

02 Jul 24
Posted by: Roger Plumtree
26 minutes, 39 seconds read
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With eyes turned towards a potential Integrated Defence and Security Review, and armed with a sweeping appreciation of British maritime history, the author targets conventional assumptions and challenges Defence planners to make bold decisions whilst moving beyond comforting platitudes. A 25 minute read.

Humans since antiquity have used divination by soothsayers in an endeavour to foretell the future, or to gain a response to a difficult question. The demand for such a service is reflected in the knowledge that the English language records a total of 45 different means of undertaking this task.[1] A similar situation exists if attempting to determine exactly what a future defence posture should be, when considered alongside the presentiment of severe, and likely continuing, financial constraints, across all areas of governmental management today.[2] Within that ambit are difficult questions fo…

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