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UK Defence Reviews: Ancient and Modern A week after the new Government announced a fresh Strategic Defence Review, the House of Commons Library has just published https://lnkd.in/d6VF3VpM, a handy 60 page guide to all defence reviews since 1957. Such reviews never start with a clean sheet of paper, most prove contentious (it was the Nott "Navy Cuts" Review of 1981 that strengthened my own youthful defence and political interests), few prove affordable in the medium term, others rapidly overtaken by events. However, their difficult role, in the words of this particular briefing, is to "enable[s] a government to present a forward-looking assessment of Britain’s strategic interests and requisite military requirements. It examines the defence and security landscape, identifies current and emerging threats and then decides how best to organise and equip the Armed Forces". No pressure then George Robertson, John Healey, Fiona Hill and Sir Richard Barrons! #strategicdefencereview #mod #britishstrategichistory #contemporaryhistory #politics #houseofcommonslibrary #geopolitics
