You may have noticed that, in all the posts, are pictures of British Army soldiers and equipment involved with field defences ...

The Individual Protection Kit (IPK), or KIP, was a Military Experimental Engineering Establishment (MEXE) design from the ...

So what I thought I would do in this part of the series is look at a handful of niche digging tools, just to add to the mix ...

In any conflict, materials for field defences will be required. The main questions are how much is sensible to provision in advance, how will its use be organised, and how much can the host nation be ...