Nearly a year ago the Strategic Defence Review (SDR) set out its understanding of the transformed international environment this country now faces, and called for the government to lead ‘a national conversation’ on how we should respond. Yet since then there has been silence from the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary, and only muffled warnings […]
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LibLink: Paddy Ashdown: Tories’ Royal Marine cut plays fast and loose with UK defence
It makes sense that Paddy should write for the Plymouth Herald on defence given the city’s strategic importance. He took the Government to task for cutting the Marines – about which he knows more than most people: For more than three centuries – from Gibraltar and Trafalgar to Normandy and Afghanistan – the Royal Marines […]
LibLink: Paddy Ashdown: Tories’ Royal Marine cut plays fast and loose with UK defence
It makes sense that Paddy should write for the Plymouth Herald on defence given the city’s strategic importance. He took the Government to task for cutting the Marines – about which he knows more than most people: For more than three centuries – from Gibraltar and Trafalgar to Normandy and Afghanistan – the Royal Marines […]