Yesterday’s budget saw two very significant pledges by this government on defence. Firstly, the Chancellor announced that defence spending will rise each year until 2020/21.
...Middle East. Srebrenica genocide The Guardian and The Telegraph report that Russia has vetoed a British-drafted United Nations resolution condemning the 1995 Srebrenica massacre as a "crime of genocide". The...
...extend the air strike campaign against ISIL into Syria. In The Daily Telegraph, Con Coughlin writes that ten years after 7/7, al-Qaeda has been routed but the West now has...
...sat that it would ultimately be for the ground forces of - and effective efforts by - countries in the region to win the battle, supported by coalition air strikes...
...to leave no doubt that the Ministry of Defence knows that the threat of terrorism does not represent Islam in Britain. Speaking as Patron of the Armed Forces Muslim Forum,...
...in the current System of Service Complaints and is advising the Army on the new Service Complaints System. This will certainly provide useful background knowledge and understanding of what is...
...to review its use of a fleet of cars that is costing £120 million each year. Taxpayers are understood to be footing the bill for an average of 29,000 short-notice...
...overseas. This comes as Tunisia declares a 30-day state of emergency to enable security forces greater freedom to track down and combat terrorist groups in the country. Also in the...
...53% of all Armed Forces personnel hate being in the forces. The short article suggests military personnel are “fed up” with service life, low pay, having to put on a...
Today sees further reporting of the Defence Secretary’s comments made in the House yesterday with coveragedebating whether military action against ISIL militants should be extended to Syria. Corporal Stewart McLaughlin...
