The Magic 2% – A Look at the Budget 2015
I have often warned about fixating on the magic 2% of GDP as a means of measuring defence spending for the simple reason it becomes the objective of defence policy.…
Campaigning for an increase in defence funding
What is the definition of insanity, one A. Einstein Esq. had the answer? And yet here we are in the run up to the National Security Strategy, Strategic Defence…
Captain Efficiency Back on Parade
We all know the Government has been under huge pressure from an array of sources on 2% of GDP spending. Despite it being an arbitrary target (like 0.7% on overseas…
The Morning After
The election campaign has concluded and votes have been cast. Whether it actually makes a great deal of difference one way or the other is debatable but what does a…
France ups the ante on defence spending, or does it?
The reaction to the news that France has increased their defence budget by €2.3 Billion this year and €3.8 billion by 2019 has been met by what I think are…
What if the UK spent less money on defence instead of more?
In the loosely themed SDSR 2015 series of posts I started with a look at the depressing inevitably of leaks, service-centric opinion pieces and general jockeying for position that has…
The Budget
Saw the underlying graph on Twitter this afternoon, a number of people pointed out that the green 'other' category includes the MoD's budget. So I thought I would reproduce it…
Introducing 77 Brigade and a New Way Of Business
The arrival of 77 Brigade onto the media scene in January and subsequent media furore overshadowed what to me was the more important news, the internal publication of Army Doctrine…