FDR – Littoral Summary
Sorry for the lack of posting of late. The FDR littoral series of posts is summarised below; Part 1 – Introduction Part 2 – Hover and Raiding Craft Part 3 – Fires and Support Craft Part 4 – The C3 Part 5 – Ship to Shore
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Food for Thought
With David Cameron refusing to ‘un ring fence’ the development budget it will fall to the MoD, Social Protection and other spending departments to bear the brunt of future cuts in public spending, which we all know are going to hit hard. Part of that development fund has, does and will go to India. India no doubt has a great [...]
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FDR – Strategy or Budget Led?
One of the more widely accepted notions is that a strategic defence review must always be led from a strategic perspective, the clue being in the name! Decide what you want the armed forces to do, decide how you want to configure them and then provide the funds, in full. The 1998 SDR was widely considered to be an excellent [...]
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FDR – Raiding, Nation Building or a Bit of Both
In some of the earlier posts I looked at the strategic options proposed by Michael Codner in the RUSI paper A Force for Honour and a range of interesting comments were written by contributors. I thought I would revisit the subject and ask if it is an either/or option as proposed in the article or could we do a bit of [...]
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Future Defence Review
Over the coming months Think Defence will be running a series of posts on a Future Defence Review. We have already made a start with articles covering a range of topics that might inform such a review. Introduction Future Threats The UK’s Place in the World Missions and Requirements Starters for Ten Ideas, Suggestions and Hair Brained Schemes All posts [...]
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Defence Futures – Ideas, Suggestions and Hair Brained Schemes
The last few posts in this series have thrown up some great comment and as a sign of how difficult it is to plan for future there doesn’t seem to be any consensus on the most important question of any defence review; WHAT DO YOU WANT THE ARMED FORCES TO DO? The answer to this question is naturally derived from [...]
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Defence Futures – Starters for Ten
Part 5 – A post about how to configure for the future For this post I thought I would float some ideas then flesh those ideas out in subsequent posts. To summarise the context The country is on its uppers so any opportunity for cost savings is worth at least a good look, its unpalatable that defence should pay for [...]
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Defence Futures – Missions and Requirements
Part 4 – A post about missions and requirements I have set the scene, the world will continue to be a risk place and we need to flex our defence resources towards the most likely threats, recognising we can’t have it all. When trying to make a ‘plan’ the activity should always start with a question, what is it you [...]
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Defence Futures – The UK’s Place in the World
Part 3 – A post about how the UK sees itself Many people seem to have a polarised view of our position in the world, we are either a small insignificant nation that should retreat from the world stage and others think we are an important world power with a proud history and a deserved place in the top tier. [...]
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Defence Futures – Future Threats
Part 2 – A post about what future threats we might face At the heart of any defence and security review must be some analysis of the future. Of course, if anyone can predict the future then I would ask them for next week’s lottery numbers. A flippant point perhaps, but it is important to realise that the world is [...]
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UK Defence Futures – Introduction
A strategic defence and security review is on the horizon; that much is certain. Predicting its content is impossible but one theme that is likely to emerge is that the three services have to prepare for more of the types of conflict we are engaged in now. The argument that future conflict will be characterised by sustained medium scale counter [...]
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