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https://www.flickr.com/photos/defenceimages/10172985145/in/album-72157625488166894/ The current Future Force 2020 structure for the British Army is in all honesty a bit of a dog's breakfast. A process that started out with some very…

The Parliamentary Defence Committee has produced a report entitled Re-thinking Defence To Meet New Threats. The report points to a number of short comings in the UK's defence capability especially in regards to fighting a peer…

Okay, so I know its the Telegraph, but I can't seriously believe that any editor would allow such inaccurate nonsense to appear in a broad sheet. It seems the problem with getting the message on defence spending across to the media is…

Part 1 Part 2 A Guest Post by Martin WARNING THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS LARGE AMOUNTS OF BACK OF THE FAG PACKET CALCULATIONS. DO NOT READ IT IF EASILY OFFENDED. The Royal Navy Once the Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers…

A Guest Post by Martin WARNING THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS LARGE AMOUNTS OF BACK OF THE FAG PACKET CALCULATIONS. DO NOT READ IT IF EASILY OFFENDED. In my opinion the best area to spend any additional extra funds is on plugging capability…

A Guest Post By Martin  We have become accustom to defence reviews being simply budget cutting, salami slicing exercises dressed up as strategy. This is principally due to the fact that over the last 25 years the armed forces budget as a…

Two Interesting articles in the press today seem to be drawing the battle lines for the major cut in the defence budget post 2015. Now that David Cameron is admitting that the defence budget is likely to fall…

A report out from RUSI indicates that the UK may well fall below NATO’s spending target of 2% of GDP by as early as next year. The article also further highlights that with current defence assumptions spending could fall to as…

Traditionally the Royal Air Force has used the probe and drogue in-flight refuelling system, contrasting with the US Air Force which uses a flying boom system. For smaller fast jet aircraft the choice of system makes little difference as…