Priorities and Options for SDSR 2015 – Other Sovereign Territories
A GUEST POST FROM ANDY C The only UK sovereign territory that appears to be under any potential threat remains the Falkland Islands. Argentina regularly re-states its claims on the…
Priorities and Options for SDSR 2015 – Defence of the United Kingdom
A GUEST POST FROM ANDY C The task of defending the UK itself falls largely to the RAF and Royal Navy. They need to have sufficient forces to defend our…
Priorities and Options for SDSR 2015 – Introduction
GUEST POST FROM ANDY C This paper seeks to amend and update a series I wrote for Think Defence way back in July 2014. Since then I have incorporated the…
Not with a bang
This article has been doing the rounds over the last few days and in the run up to SDSR 2015 was seen by many as a timely reminder of…
Penny Goes Large in Washington
Breaking Defense has published an article on Penny Mordaunt's visit to Washington. UK commits to 2 carriers, fully crewed, F-35B numbers TBD The report quotes the Minister of State and…
SDSR 15 – Following Boldly On
One of the hallmarks of a good officer is the ability to plagiarise with confidence. To that end as we all eagerly honehone our 300 word SDSR 15 submissions I…
SDSR 2015 in 200 Words
As we discussed in the Open Thread a week or so ago, the public consultation web form for the SDSR only allows submissions that are 1,500 characters long, about 200-300…
Cloud Cuckoo Land
One of the greatest problems with UK defence and security policy is the complete and utter disconnect between aspirations and reality. Having successively cut the UK defence budget and failed…