3 PARA Sharpen Chemical Attack Response
The use of chemical weapons in Syria has been a timely reminder of the kind of training British troops might need to protect themselves in a war zone. And as…
National Cyber Security Strategy Update
The Cabinet Office and National Security Secretariat released the UK National Cyber Security Strategy in 2011 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cyber-security-strategy 2 years on, the Cabinet Office has published an update on the Government's…
RAF flies second wave of vehicles to French peacekeepers
You can't do enough for a mate https://www.gov.uk/government/news/raf-flies-second-wave-of-vehicles-to-french-peacekeepers http://www.raf.mod.uk/news/archive/raf-flies-second-wave-of-vehicles-to-french-peacekeepers-11122013
What will be the biggest threats in the next 10 years?
I have to say, this did make me chuckle a bit NATO Review posed this question; Getting a new defence product to market takes up to 10 years. So what…
MoD Reform – The Groundhog Day Edition
GoCo is off the table and so we come back to the hoary old issue of MoD reform, the same set of easy sound bites about pen pushers, Wellington's staff,…
SDSR 2015 – Its Bloody Cold Up North
In the new year I am going to start on an SDSR 2015 themed series leading on from the handful already posted a few weeks ago. In preparation, some background…
The Other Chaps Drones
I know I have been harping on about this for ages now, the proliferation of cheap but increasingly effective UAV's or 'drones' When happens when the the other chaps get…
CONCEPT 1 in Action in Tacloban
The delivery augments the cargo handling equipment fleet brought in by the company a week earlier and will assist in aid and typhoon relief efforts. http://www.ictsi.com/media-center/our-releases/2013/12/ictsi-brings-heavy-lift-equipment-to-tacloban/ This will have a…