Andrew Curtis 
We Need to Talk About Defence [PDF ebook] 
Reforming Contemporary Defence Management

Based on a distinguished 35-year career in the RAF as an Air Commodore, Andrew R. Curtis highlights what is wrong with the way defence is managed today, and presents evidence-based proposals to fix it.Defence is failing to deliver. From the ability of the Ministry of Defence (Mo D) to develop defence policy, to the single service’s – Royal Navy, British Army, and Royal Air Force (RAF) – ability to acquire and maintain military capability, and undertake military operations. This is not a new problem; indeed, ever since the creation of the Mo D in 1964, there have been tensions between the department of state and the armed forces over allocations of responsibility, authority and accountability. Concerned with political oversight; the allocation of responsibility, authority, and accountability; administration of people; organisational structures; and policies and processes, Curtis compellingly demonstrates the critical need to reform the management of Defence for the UK’s armed forces to fight and win in the future.