General Sir Mark Carleton-Smith The Chief of the General Staff, describes his vision for tomorrow's Army which will be agile, responsive, expeditionary in nature and fitted for the challenges of the Digital Age.
The soldier of 2030 will be someone able to harness a sophisticated suite of capabilities; who is able to compute the inputs which link the satellite to the soldier; matches boots on the ground to bots; one who's as adept at managing pixels as they are working alongside partners and proxies.
Whilst much conversation focuses on future capabilities and equipment land close combat remains a visceral and lethal contest of will and will require young men and women who are able to close with and kill the enemy but the British Army prevails as a direct result of the fighting spirit of its young men and women and leaders must nurture and nourish that fighting spirit which is the true litmus test for the British Army.