Thoughts on Trident
As m’learned friend Jedibeeftrix eloquently states in his recent take on Sir Nick Harvey’s comments on Trident, the ex defence minister has managed to get …
Options for the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Weapons Programme
An interesting discussion paper on the subject of the future of the UK’s nuclear deterrent from the British American Security Information Council (BASIC) …
Could Devolution Kill Trident
The activity on the Scottish Devolution front is ramping up, lots of news to digest on the political front but this, the Secretary of State for Defence weighed …
Squeal Piggy Squeal
From the SNP’s Election
Back Door Disarmament
I know this sounds like the title of some dodgy porn film but this is exactly what is happening with Trident, if we are to believe the papers and other media …
Or are we?
Perhaps the Treasury are moving the Trident funds into the MoD’s budget, the MoD in effect getting more money but paying for Trident replacement. No, …
RUSI – Continuous At Sea Deterrence
RUSI have published another paper on the options for the UK’s nuclear deterrent. In the paper, Professor Chalmers assesses four possible options for …
Trident and the Core Budget – In or Out
Just been watching Liam Fox on the Andrew Marr show in which he asked Liam Fox if the Trident replacement would be in the core budget or not, pretty …
A Cheaper Deterrent – Part 2
With news filtering out that the Treasury wants any Trident replacement to be funded from the MoD’s core budget instead of a special reserve, I thought …
Life on Trident
A good article from the Guardian At any moment, one of Britain’s four Trident submarines is out there, somewhere, patrolling a continent-sized patch of …
Red Lines
In all the horse trading that accompanies the Conservative and Liberal Democrats rush to power one wonders if trident appears anywhere on a list of things that …
Back to the Future – The Trident Issue
It is obvious that the replacement for the Vanguard class of SSBN submarines and Trident missile is unfinished business for many and it has emerged as a …
A Cheaper Deterrent
The comments on the earlier post about the Liberal Democrat election manifesto got me thinking, are there cheaper alternatives than 4 new boats and a refreshed …
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 …