Defence in the Media: 10 September 2015
Today's broadcast and print news includes the Government's fight against ISIL, Defence spending and Afghan Interpreters. Syria strikes Today the Guardian led with reports that Downing Street is drawing up...
Today's broadcast and print news includes the Government's fight against ISIL, Defence spending and Afghan Interpreters. Syria strikes Today the Guardian led with reports that Downing Street is drawing up...
...are a mark of tyranny and counter-productive because they generate new terrorist threats rather than reducing them. In the Mail on Sunday Peter Hitchens argues against their use, saying that...
This morning’s broadcast news includes an interview on Radio 4’s Today programme with General John Allen, special presidential envoy for the US-led coalition fighting ISIL. He says that ISIL has...
Included in today’s broadcast news is reporting that Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond will meet his American counterpart in London for the latest round of talks on defeating ISIL. Forces Recruitment...
...a new one bearing an image of the Queen, the other of her father King George VI. All have been individually engraved for each of the GC and GM holders....
This morning’s Defence-related news includes BBC Radio 4’s Today programme and BBC News reporting that an RAF sergeant was moved out of a hospital waiting room because staff thought his...
In today's defence news there is further reporting from the UN about efforts to tackle ISIL in Iraq and Syria and a feature about the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike...
...since Monday. The papers say that while President Ashraf Ghani has said this is “good news”, he has also warned against complacency, adding that the war is ongoing. BBC News...
In Defence news, Doctors Without Borders says it has withdrawn from Kunduz, in Afghanistan, after an air strike by US-led NATO forces allegedly destroyed the city’s hospital and killed 22...
...Radio 4’s Today programme are reporting that the new phase of the operation to deal with people smuggling in the Mediterranean will include the Royal Navy’s HMS Richmond, as announced...