The Defence Reform Team

Face The Future Stronger

The Defence Reform Team (DRT) are acknowledged experts in all aspects of defence reform from creating politically led high level defence change to restructuring unit capabilities to meet modern threats.

DRT helps MODs to rethink their budgets and plans, improve capability coherence and achieve better combat effect for future operations.

LATEST ARTICLES

November 17th, 2018List of Links to Writings
by Glen Grant
November 17th, 2018REGAINING MILITARY POWER BY FOCUSSED CHANGE
November 17th, 2018Identifying the challenges to defence reform in Central and Eastern Europe: observations from the field
May 22nd, 2018MISSION COMMAND STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS. A Sociology of Command in Central and Eastern Europe
By Dr Tom Young (Translated to Ukrainian)
April 13th, 2018The failure of defense planning in European Post-Communist Defense Institutions
By Dr Tom Young. Ascertaining causation and determining solutions
April 12th, 2018DEFENSE MODELS UNCOVERED: How to understand the defense style of a country
By Glen Grant and Vlad Milenski
The Team
The team consists of specialists from several NATO countries, with the possibility of adding world class Subject Matter Experts for specific tasks. They have worked individually and as a team all over the globe helping defence ministries, commanders and staffs change the way they do business. DRT has conducted strategic defence reviews, force structure reviews and has helped countries to gain NATO accession. They have written public white papers for government in special areas of law including new national defence and security laws for the Military Police and Security Sector.
Glen Grant
Glen Grant graduated from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, the Junior Staff Course Warminster and the Joint Staff Defence College at the Royal Naval College Greenwich. He has also attended the Army Commanding Officers course and the Navy and MORE
Vladimir Milenski
Vladimir is a retired Colonel of the Bulgarian Armed Forces with 27 years of service, with assignments ranging from the tactical signal units, up to the Ministry of Defence, which he left in 2011 as acting Defence Policy Director. His expertise is MORE
Dr. Thomas-Durell Young
Dr Thomas-Durell Young has worked professionally in the field of comparative defense planning for 30+ years. He has undertaken two studies that have contributed to reforms in national-level strategic planning. In 1994, he co authored a published s MORE