CONTENT

The guest today is Neale Smiles, a former Gunner now working in the defence industry.  Neale often posts his thoughts on military matters on LinkedIn and it was one on the future of the Royal Artillery that got my attention. In it he stated that:

“when you aren’t equipped or established to fight in the traditional combined arms manner you have to change” 

In this episode Neale will set out the changes he feels the Army and specifically the Gunners should make and we discuss:

• The current state of the Army.
• How the army should train and the use of simulation.
• Future soldier concept and the shift from close to deep battle.
• Moving close support artillery to the infantry to be owned by the infantry and how that would look.
• The RA to be a missile only deep effects organisation
• Use of UAS on the battle space.
• The challenges of recruitment.

Neale can be contacted at the following email address: [email protected].

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