Hot Blood & Cold Steel

Category: History

  • Design Session for "The Lion Comes Home" – Onside report

    This CLWG session yesterday was a very loose and rambling affair with myself and three (or perhaps four) others in John Rutherford’s living room. Despite the great number of digressions I managed to get quite a few useful pointers about structure, level of detail, team composition and, importantly, how much more research I had to…

  • A Young Officer’s Guide to Fighting in Built Up Areas (FIBUA)

    I promised that I would do a bit on Fighting In Built-Up Areas (FIBUA) because I thought that I would be able to add one or two bits of my experience to the pool. Because of laziness I thought that I would just provide the following extract from an Aide Memoire I acquired whilst an…