Defence in the Media: 9 August 2015

...Sunday Express inaccurately reports that Britain may have to go “cap in hand “ to Italy or Germany to secure spare parts for the RAF's Tornado bombers. The paper says...
...Sunday Express inaccurately reports that Britain may have to go “cap in hand “ to Italy or Germany to secure spare parts for the RAF's Tornado bombers. The paper says...
...Kurdish forces in Iraq. Kurdish officials have said their Peshmerga forces were attacked on Wednesday near the town of Makhmour, not far from Irbil. Germany's military had been training the...
...and Germany evacuated interpreters and allowed them to seek asylum. FACT: The UK has ensured that local staff who served 12 months in frontline positions can relocate to the UK...
...June when key staff, including the General Officer Commanding, Major General Giles Hill, took up post. The Divisional headquarters and a number of its regiments have moved over from Germany...
...said “hard military force” would be necessary. The Financial Times reports that Germany’s foreign minister has hit out at Britain and France for considering air strikes in Syria against ISIL....
...army The Daily Express reports that German Chancellor Angela Merkel is pressuring Prime Minister David Cameron to drop his opposition for an EU army if he wants Germany to support...
...Prime Minister David Cameron, Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Germany’s President Joachim Gauck joined the families of those who fought in the epic battle to remember the 8,648 seamen...
...of war camps in Italy, Austria and Germany, during which time he was promoted from Sergeant Warrant Officer. He recalled the boosting food parcels, concert parties and escape plans as...
...Forces. We fall well behind the Met Police and London Ambulance Service where the figure is above 11%. Internationally, even accounting for the different mix of our populations, in Germany...
..."countermoves" in response to US plans to upgrade nuclear weapons in Germany. Outlets write that Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for President Putin, said that the reported plans were a "serious...