Part 2 – The Disappointment of SDR (1998) Defence reviews have a habit of only coming round every change of government. This simple piece of information should be taken as an immediate pointer to the nature of defence reviews: they are a statement of political intent. A review of both the likely threats and the current and future capacities to [...]
Part 1 – The Big Picture As sure as night follows day, the arrival of a new government leads to cuts in defence spending. Maybe, just maybe, on this occasion we should understand that when they say the cupboard is bare, they genuinely mean that it is packed full of IOUs left behind by the last tenant at The Treasury. [...]
Another contributor to our little blog, this time ripping one of my previous posts to pieces, the bloody cheek! This is a riposte to my post about Afghanistan from Mark Nixon I will drop my response (along with the dummy) in comments. On December 9th, ADMIN posted Afghanistan, Who is Pulling Their Weight and concluded his piece with: “It is simply too [...]
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