Sir Mark Carleton-Smith and Sir Nick Carter recently gave a pair of speeches on the upcoming focus of the Army and Arme dForces in general. There is some very good/exciting stuff in there which will be covered in due time but I'd like to raise my biggest fear here, first.

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My biggest fear is that arguably the MOD's greatest weakness, as TD succinctly put it recently, is our constant "chasing of the shiny's". Constant analysis paralysis, which hasn't (in my opinion) lead to a credible fieldable "warfighting" Division since Warrior introduction.

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Sir Nick and Sir Mark have discussed going all-in on the very mechanisms that chase the shiny's and that have over-analysed every program without delivery.

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I don't see much Cult of the Imperfect here, much "Get it working, *then* get it working right, *then* get it working fast" thinking, unless we can embed it, inculcate it, within those mechanisms.

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Embedding the Cult of the Imperfect and Delivering Outcomes into the New Thinking being proposed is going to be one of the greatest challenges the MOD will ever face.

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/FIN