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The Falklands and ISAF
In our previous post on the US reaction to the latest Falklands Islands we pondered on the fact that the UK has 10,000 service personnel in Afghanistan and this deployment has been ongoing for several years at a very high cost in blood and treasure.
And yet despite this, the State Department and Hilary ...
The Falklands and Our Allies
There is a great deal of debate on the nature of our political and strategic relationship with the EU, NATO, the Commonwealth and individual nations.
One of the fundamental principles of UK defence and security strategy is the recognition that large scale operations will always be conducted in conjunction ...
Op Corporate 2, Calm Down Please
Anyone would think there is an election on with news of escalating tensions in the South Atlantic.
In what seems more like a squabble over money and resources than territory the Argentine authorities have declared that any shipping that wishes to travel between Argentina and the Falkland Islands (including ...
Giving a Shit
Today, in the Houses of Parliament, the Secretary of State for Defence stood up and announced the launch of a Green paper that will inform the shape of the next strategic defence and security review.
Some might say that the SoS Defence is one of the key offices of state
Some might say we are at war ...
Playing Politics
The thing with most politicians in this country is they set the bar low and often spectacularly fail to live up to those expectations.
Gordon Brown is one of those, in a despicable display of ‘playing politics’ with the defence of the realm and the people charged with that task, he has ...
A Resilient Nation – Analysis Part 2
1. Britain’s Place in the World
Reaffirming that the United Kingdom is an open, outward facing nation of considerable influence this sections covers the issue of how we might perceive our global role. After reading the section it is hard to see what is different from any other political party and it ...
How Britain Can Best Address the Threats of the 21st Century
This is a transcript from today’s speech by David Cameron at Chatham House during which he outlined the Conservative Party strategy for the future security of the UK.
We will have a look in more depth in a later post but for now, and in the interest of accuracy and fairness it is presented below ...
Solid Tory Policy
We have been waiting for something solid to come from the Conservatives in the defence realm. So far they have delivered a half baked ill thought through collection of announcements mostly about ’slashing civil servant numbers’
With General Sir Richard Dannatt on the team it is hoped that ...
Weight Pulling – A Response
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.
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On December 9th, ADMIN posted Afghanistan, Who is Pulling Their ...
Afghanistan, Who is Pulling Their Weight
There is a widely help opinion that some NATO nations are not pulling their weight in Afghanistan.
NATO is a political and military alliance, therefore it should act as a collective if one nations security is threatened.
Article V of the NATO charter states;
The Parties agree that an armed attack against ...
