Courses Don’t Make Experts, Practice Does
There is a quiet but persistent myth in modern professional life: attend a course, receive a certificate, and emerge somehow transformed into a competent practitioner. … Read more
What Future Conflict Will Really Look Like
We tend to imagine the next war using the language of the last one. Frontlines. Forward operating bases. Evacuation corridors. Protected rear areas. Helicopters lifting … Read more
Expertise Is Earned With Your Hands
There is a particular confidence that comes from having done the thing yourself. Not read about it. Not watched someone else do it. Not quoted a … Read more
The Resource We Keep Forgetting
There is a great deal of conversation at the moment about prolonged field care, about evacuation denial, about scarce skill sets, high-value clinicians, and the … Read more
Why the Four-Person Expeditionary Surgical Team Is No Longer Optional
For decades, military medicine has been built around a comforting assumption: that there will always be a place behind the fight where casualties can be … Read more
Never Become the Monday Morning Quarterback
There is a particular kind of behaviour that appears after every conflict, every kinetic deployment, every traumatic event where clinicians and medics have intervened under … Read more
Blue-Sky Fantasies and Battlefield Realities: Why Drone Evacuation Will Not Save Us
Every few years, a new generation of technology arrives with great fanfare and an even greater promise: this time, finally, war will become cleaner, safer, … Read more
The Most Important Resource: The People Beside You
There comes a moment in every career, sometimes early, sometimes far too late, when you realise that the most vital resource you will ever possess … Read more
From Frontline to Killzone: How Modern Warfare Has Erased the Middle Ground
Because the battlefield has changed, and pretending otherwise gets people killed. The Frontline We Used to Know There was a time, and it’s not ancient … Read more
The Calm in the Storm: What Trauma Really Demands of You
Because when everything is falling apart, someone has to hold the centre. Trauma Is Noise – Deafening, Unforgiving Noise Alarms blaring. Monitors screaming. People rushing. … Read more