Defence for 2015 and Beyond – Part 2 Defence of the United Kingdom
A series of guest posts from AndyC The task of defending the UK itself falls largely to the RAF and Royal Navy. They need to have sufficient forces to defend…
Defence for 2015 and Beyond – Part 1 Introduction
A series of guest posts from AndyC With less than a year to go to the next General Election and thereafter the Strategic Defence and Security Review 2015 it’s time…
Vernon Coaker MP – Speech to RUSI
This is a transcript of the speech delivered by the Shadow Secretary of State for Defence, Vernon Coaker, at RUSI earlier today. I am honoured to speak to such a…
SDSR 2015 – Impacts, Threats and Critical Assets
I love fantasy fleets as much as the next blogger but I think it’s time we started thinking about the Strategic Defence and Security Review of 2015. No Government can…
A Theoretical Construct for UK Defense
Spot the spelling, this is from Jeremy M H, one of our many friends from the USA; Intro The United Kingdom appears to occupy a unique niche in the defense…
The French Defence White Paper
I am going to keep a running link list for information relating to the French Defence White Paper. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/10026084/France-to-cut-24000-defence-posts-by-2019.html http://www.gouvernement.fr/gouvernement/le-livre-blanc-2013-discours-du-ministre-de-la-defense http://www.gouvernement.fr/gouvernement/livre-blanc-2013-de-la-defense-et-de-la-securite-nationale http://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2013/04/29/defense-la-france-prepare-les-guerres-de-demain-avec-des-ambitions-reduites_3168164_823448.html http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2013/03/28/le-budget-francais-de-la-defense-est-il-en-baisse-depuis-trente-ans_3149927_3224.html http://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2013/04/29/atlantiste-calamiteux-le-livre-blanc-sur-la-defense-concentre-les-critiques_3168423_823448.html http://www.lemonde.fr/politique/infographie/2013/04/29/l-armee-francaise-a-l-horizon-2020_3168245_823448.html http://theatrum-belli.org/livre-blanc-de-la-defense-et-de-la-securite-nationale-2013/ http://www.marianne.net/blogsecretdefense/Defense-34-000-postes-supprimes-d-ici-a-la-fin-2019_a1021.html http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130429/DEFREG01/304290010?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/france-whitepaper-livre-blanc-012462/ http://www.acus.org/natosource/france-releases-defense-white-paper-hollande-cut-24000-military-jobs…
A Forward Presence Army
Throughout the Future Of series of posts I have put forward the basic premise that in order to deliver greater security the UK needs to have a smaller but highly…
The Emperors New Combats
Military fashion delivers more than its fair share of acronyms and buzzwords, in a game of bullshit bingo the card would need to be the size of a newspaper. As…