Defence in the media: 18 August 2015
...re-opened should new evidence of intimidation emerge. Battle of Britain The Daily Star reports that the Royal Mint has released a special coin to celebrate the 75th anniversary of a...
...re-opened should new evidence of intimidation emerge. Battle of Britain The Daily Star reports that the Royal Mint has released a special coin to celebrate the 75th anniversary of a...
...billion on equipment and equipment support to keep Britain safe. That includes new strike fighters; more surveillance aircraft; hunter killer submarines; two aircraft carriers; and the most advanced armoured vehicles....
...Afghanistan and, where necessary, relocation to the UK. We look carefully at every case and they can of course be re-opened should new evidence of intimidation emerge. Separately the Sunday...
Today’s broadcast news continues to focus on newly appointed Cabinet ministers. Elsewhere news has broken that Nepal has been hit by another earthquake of 7.4 magnitude broke this morning. Nepal...
In Defence-related news, Radio 4’s Today programme included an interview with Anders Fogh Rasmussen, former Secretary General of NATO, who said that the West should step up support for Ukraine....
...and so well that you can invest for the future. We’re building two aircraft carriers, seven Hunter-Killer submarines, there are new armoured vehicles on order for the army, we’re buying...
...itself (Independent on Sunday p4). http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/tory-mp-julian-lewis-my-party-left-britains-military-capabilities-enfeebled-10286951.html. Our position on Defence spending, as set out on in recent days, is here: The Ministry of Defence continuously looks for ways to be...
...more about the campaign on Facebook, Twitter or sign up to our newsletter to keep up to date with the latest. The week of Armed Forces Day begins on Monday...
Of note for Defence in the news today is the continuing coverage focusing on doubts over the Iraqi forces’ ability and willingness to fight ISIL. ISIL The majority of papers...
A range of defence stories appear in the news this morning, including reports a UK-based former senior officer in the Pakistan army is accused of selling the secret location of...