Dr Jack Watling
Senior Research Fellow, Land Warfare Military Sciences
Biography
Dr Jack Watling is Senior Research Fellow for Land Warfare at the Royal United Services Institute. Jack works closely with the British military on the development of concepts of operation, assessments of the future operating environment, and conducts operational analysis of contemporary conflicts.
Jack is the author of The Arms of the Future: Technology and Close Combat in the Twenty First Century. Jack's PhD examined the evolution of Britain’s policy responses to civil war in the early twentieth century. He has worked extensively with the Ukrainian Armed Forces during Russia's full-scale invasion, across NATO, and in Iraq, Mali, Rwanda, on Yemen and further afield.
This report by Open Source Centre and RUSI provides a comprehensive overview of Russia’s artillery supply chain, with the goal to inform a cross-government, and ideally inter-governmental, approach to disrupting this specific supply chain. (10 October 2024)
Dr Jack Watling talks to Peter Roberts as he returns from his most recent trip to Ukraine. Whilst Jack brings his latest insights to the listeners, he and Peter have a discussion over the information war and debunk some of the myths and fallacies around the public face of the war.
