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  • Winning Wars With Agile: Fear and Loathing – Revisited

    Winning Wars With Agile: Fear and Loathing – Revisited

    Martyn Rhisiart Jones

    “Logistics is all of war-making, except shooting the guns, releasing the bombs, and firing the torpedoes.”

    ADM Lynde D. McCormick, USN

    Martyn Rhisiart Jones, Córdoba, 3rd October 2024

    Martyn Rhisiart Jones, Marid, Friday 13th March 2026

    In the boardrooms of Silicon Valley and the corridors of Whitehall, the gospel of agility has become a mantra for efficiency and innovation. Borrowed from the frenetic world of software development, where iterative sprints and self-organising teams promise to outpace lumbering bureaucracies, agile methodologies, scaled up through frameworks like SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework), are now touted as universal elixirs. But can these principles, honed in the digital realm, truly orchestrate the chaos of armed conflict? Or do they risk injecting perilous uncertainty into arenas where hesitation can spell catastrophe? This question, once a provocative thought experiment, gains urgency amid evolving threats, from hybrid warfare in Eastern Europe to cyber skirmishes in the South China Sea. Drawing on historical precedents, contemporary military adaptations, and a dash of Celtic scepticism, we dissect whether agility’s allure holds water on the front lines, echoing the resilient pragmatism of Welsh soldiery through the ages.

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  • Truth in Journalism: Sudan

    Truth in Journalism: Sudan

    Sir Afilonius Rex and Selina Alba

    New York and London, 4th November 2025

    Recent BBC Reports on Sudan. The civil war in Sudan erupted in April 2023. It is between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). This conflict continues to dominate coverage. Below is a list of key reports published on BBC News in 2025. The reports focus on significant developments. These include battles, humanitarian crises, and atrocities. I’ve prioritised the most recent and prominent articles, including titles, publication dates, and brief summaries.

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  • Martyn Jones – Author

    Martyn Jones – Author

    Hold up, folks! You’re going to love these! They are amazing, beautiful, classy, dazzling and eminently readable. And that’s an absolute understatement of Mel Brook’s proportions.

    As a writer, I have several works to my name. This post highlights some of these works. It also offers a quick link to the Amazon platform, where you can get your editions.

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  • IT’S POLITICS: From Russia With Dismay

    IT’S POLITICS: From Russia With Dismay

    From Russia With Dismay

    Afilonius Rex, Madrid, 18th January 2025.

    Profound antagonism has existed between Russia and Western Europe since the times of the Czars. Leading roles in this perpetual drama have been racism, imperialism, arrogance, ignorance, personal ambitions and paranoia. The biggest problem in the room is that Russia understands the West too well and that the West is deliberately stubborn when it comes to putting itself in the shoes of Russia.

    There are elements on all sides who are nostalgic about the Cold War and believe that it should be the natural state of things, not just some terrible and painful relic of how not to live in peace, harmony and cooperation.

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  • Can Agile Methods Win a War?

    Can Agile Methods Win a War?

    Martyn Richard Jones

    “Logistics is all of war-making, except shooting the guns, releasing the bombs, and firing the torpedoes.”

    ADM Lynde D. McCormick, USN

    Martyn Richard Jones, Córdoba, 3rd October 2024

    Narrator: Here is a billion-dollar question: Can Agile-to-Scale be effectively used to fight a war, a regional conflict, or a global existential threat?

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