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All the Chiefs
All the service chiefs have now set out their stall for the forthcoming strategic defence review at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
The transcripts are available at the links.
Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope
Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Dalton
General Sir David Richards
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FDR – Land
We are in the home straight with the Think Defence Future Defence Review and about to start on the Land component.
Equipment
Armoured vehicles
Organisation
Territorial Army
Anyone got any other suggestions?
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FDR – Maritime (Repair and other Support Capabilities)
This is the final post in our FDR Maritime section and I have decided to go ‘off piste’ with some hair brain schemes and mad ideas, don’t take this one too seriously but treat it as a discussion piece.
We asked about naval innovation in a previous post and there are a some superb maritime focussed ...
FDR – Maritime (At Sea Replenishment)
The Military Afloat Reach and Sustainability (MARS) project has had more lives than a whole herd of cats, on, off and on again. Most of the indecision has been driven by cost issues and delays around the CVF. Originally intended to replace the existing replenishment ships and provide a joint sea based ...
FDR – Maritime (Amphibious and Logistics)
To set the scene for this post, our earlier suggestion of cancelling CVF and JCA was nothing short of a brutal cost saving measure. Some may argue that significant costs have already been sunk and contracts signed, to cancel now would not result in any savings. This is simply not the case, yes, there ...
Who is the bigger security threat?
As we get ever close the the Green Paper and Future Security and Defence Review one of the key questions we have to ask ourselves is, who, where and when are the threats to the UK.
So in the rush to avoid buying those much maligned exquisite systems are we losing sight of a few painful lessons earned ...
FDR – Maritime Logistics #2
Possibly less contentious than previous articles on the surface fleet and submarine fleet, this article aims to highlight the parlous state of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. The RFA supports not just the navy in its global roles and deployments, but also in various indirect fashions it supports the army ...
FDR – Naval Logistics #1
I am going to conclude the maritime section of the Think Defence Future Defence Review series of posts with a look at maritime logistics. This is a timely subject given the obvious display of logistics capability evident in Haiti.
The first couple of posts are from guest contributors…
Privatising ...
What does the QDR mean for the FDR!
There have been a number of leaks of the first draft of the US Quadrennial Defense review that reveal the Pentagon’s thinking about equipping for future conflicts.
The review seems to make little by the way of radical recommendation but details some force and equipment changes such as;
Increase ...
FDR – Maritime Futures – part 2 the Submarine Fleet
So in the last instalment written for Think Defence as part of the FDR series I concentrated on the surface fleet. By comparison the submarine service is easier to discuss, yet more contentious; because I am going to include discussion of the nuclear deterrent.
SSN fleet
As is well known the the SSN ...
