Report Launch: War in the Twenty-First Century
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Report Launch: War in the Twenty-First Century
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The wars in Ukraine and Gaza are the two most significant conflicts of the 21st century so far. They are different in scale and setting. One is a state-on-state war of national survival in Europe, the other is an asymmetric fight between a state and a non-state actor in the Middle East. However, both conflicts clearly highlight the future of warfare.
Together, they demonstrate a battlespace shaped by widespread drone warfare, real-time battlefield innovations, the weaponisation of information and the ongoing breakdown of the post-1945 rules-based order. They also emphasise the limitations of dependence on the United States and NATO, the vulnerabilities of high-cost procurement cycles and the dangers when adversaries exploit Western adherence to the laws of armed conflict.
Join Major (Ret.) Andrew Fox, Shadow Defence Secretary James Cartlidge MP and Dr Stuart Mitchell as they discuss what the wars in Ukraine and Gaza teach us about the future of warfare in the 21st century.
Major (Ret.) Andrew Fox
Major (Ret.) Andrew Fox served in the British Army from 2005 to 2021, completing three tours in Afghanistan, including one attached to the US Army Special Forces. He served in the Parachute Regiment and the Special Forces Support Group, with additional tours in Bosnia, the Middle East, and Northern Ireland.
After his active service, he spent three years as a senior lecturer in the War Studies and Behavioural Science departments at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Andrew specialises in Defence, the Middle East, and disinformation. He holds degrees in Law & Politics, Modern War Studies, and Psychology.
His extensive experience has established him as a recognised authority in his field and he provides regular commentary on defence and foreign policy across the media including articles in the New York Post, the Telegraph and Spiked. He has amassed a large following across his digital platforms, including X (formerly Twitter) and Substack, where he writes on disinformation, defence and security as stories develop.
James Cartlidge MP
James Cartlidge MP is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for South Suffolk since 2015. A member of the Conservative Party, he was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Defence in 2024. He had previously served as Minister of State for Defence Procurement from 2023 to 2024, Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury from 2022 to 2023, as well as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice from 2021 to 2022.
Dr Stuart Mitchell
Dr Stuart Mitchell, Course Co-Director, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Humanities Research Institute, University of Buckingham. He is also Senior Lecturer in the Department of War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He has published on conventional and irregular warfare between 1914 and 1918, strategy in the two World Wars, and learning in the British military since the Napoleonic War. His latest book, Counterinsurgency: Theory and Reality, was co-authored with Dr Daniel Whittingham and published in 2021. He has appeared on a variety of podcasts, videos and programmes.
