Lieutenant Colonel Tom Foss-Smith

SO1 Boxer Futures British Army

Lt Col Tom Foss-Smith took up the role of SO1 BOXER Futures in September 2022 following a series of appointments in capability development which have reflected the evolution of the British Army’s embrace of BOXER and determination to optimize ‘the decade of Land’ to reverse the decline in land Manoeuvre and fires which has been tolerated since the 1990s. Tom has a background of service in Iraq and Afghanistan like most of his contemporaries, as well as peace-keeping operations with the UN. He has masters degrees in Battlespace Technology and Defence Studies, which focussed on precision munitions and hypersonic weapons. As an artillery officer, Tom is a passionate advocate of the need for organic indirect fires for the combat arms, freeing up the artillery to fight the deep battle.