One war, joint warfare

Abstract

Increasingly, a unitary view of war is becoming the ‘gold standard’ for which armed forces should prepare. Institutional flexibility is essential in identifying the character of each conflict, and the potential changes within it, thereby influencing doctrine, training and defence spending. The current UK defence structures concerned with the development, assimilation and application of ideas about war are stove-piped, however, and do not relate to this unitary view of war. © 2009 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.