Author Archive: Think Defence
Think Defence hopes to start sensible conversations about UK defence issues, no agenda or no campaign but there might be one or two posts on containers, bridges and mexeflotes!
A Conversation with the Phoenix Think Tank
It’s all fun and games here, just as I was throwing time I don’t have into a complete site overhaul and refresh, contemplating the implications of the impending JCA decision and grappling with the finer points of DNS entries and MySQL imports, a request popped into the inbox that demanded attention. And so began a two [...]
Vent Your Spleen About the F35 Decision
The decision is widely expected to come tomorrow, it has been so comprehensively leaked it would be a huge surprise if it was anything but the F35B for the Joint Combat Aircraft (JCA) but until it is announced I thought I would put up a temporary post until the decision becomes clear and I can get [...]
Historic Regiments
Every time the Army reduces in size there is outrage at the fate of Regiment x or y. The latest media frenzy is centred on speculation that a number of Scottish regiments will be disbanded or merged and predictably the Labour Party and Scottish National Party are making life difficult for the government, one might [...]
Cuts to Piracy Patrol
The Guardian has a story today about how cuts to the Royal Navy have forced it to withdraw from the counter piracy mission off Somalia, citing the usual ‘MoD sources’ Counter-piracy is getting very difficult for the UK. We have two frigates that are supposed to look after contingencies in Falklands, the Gulf and piracy. [...]
Think Defence Refresh
A few weeks ago I decided to refresh the content and design of Think Defence. It has been a big task and coincidental I also decided to completely change a number of underlying technical features which meant that all 1,200 posts had to be reviewed and updated, hence the delay. There is still a bit [...]
Parliamentary Answers – Week Commencing 30th April 2012
This is a regular round up of Parliamentary questions and answers from ministers relevant to defence issues. In addition to oral questions, MPs and Peers can ask government ministers questions for written answer. These are often used to obtain detailed information about policies and statistics on the activities of government departments. In the House of [...]
Around the Interweb 2
A collection of interesting articles from this week A Cracking Article from Alan Mallinson on Corporal C (a must read) Sappers Upgrade Road in Helmand British Prime Minister to use new RAF tankers for future overseas visits after embarrassing trade trip with Boeing plane BMT Confirmed as Sub-Contractor for MARS Tanker Project Cost of Operations [...]
Parliamentary Answers – week commencing April 23rd 2012
This is a regular round up of Parliamentary questions and answers from ministers relevant to defence issues In addition to oral questions, MPs and Peers can ask government ministers questions for written answer. These are often used to obtain detailed information about policies and statistics on the activities of government departments. In the House of [...]
Work in Progress
Have finally decided to revamp the site after last nights little outage. One of the main problems is the massive server load caused by the multi hundred comments posts that are refreshed continually to keep up with the conversation so I am going to have a look at external commenting systems and a few other [...]
Future Government Contracts Pipeline
In order to provide business with visibility of potential future government supply contracts the government has published what they see as possible future contracts across the public sector. Nothing on defence of course, national security you see, but, have a look at the category for overseas aid and development. Click here to view the list [...]
Britain in Asia – William Hague’s Speech
In full… It is a great pleasure to be here in Singapore, a country I have long admired as a beacon of free trade and economic openness, a model of constructive foreign policy and an old and valued friend to the United Kingdom. I have come here after visiting Vietnam, and hard on the heels [...]
ANZAC Day
Thought I would pick one blog post from the many out there to cover ANZAC day. Click the image for a good read.
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