Defence in the Media: 4 February 2015

...isolated incidents are minute when compared to the numbers of armed forces personnel and civilian staff who use social media every single day. Appropriate use of social media is encouraged...
...isolated incidents are minute when compared to the numbers of armed forces personnel and civilian staff who use social media every single day. Appropriate use of social media is encouraged...
Major Rachel Grimes understands how rape and violence are being used as cheap weapons. Despite its devastating role in conflict, sexual violence has not traditionally been considered in military doctrine,...
...Sky are reporting that Sierra Leone is set to be declared free of the Ebola virus today after meeting the World Health Organisation’s standard of 42 days with no new...
...to Saudi Arabia in the 1980s. The Independent says that FCO Minister Tobias Ellwood told the House of Commons yesterday that Saudi Arabia has told the British Government that it...
...on the Army’s use of reverse psychology as part of a recruitment campaign. Major-General Chris Tickell is quoted: We have deliberately designed a bold, new recruitment campaign that uses reverse...
...all departments we’re working to reduce and, where possible, eliminate the use of single use plastics. We are currently undertaking a review of what plastics the MOD and the Armed...
...president Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi has fled the country. Rebels seized al-Anad airbase, which lies between Taiz and Hadi’s stronghold of Aden, in a renewed push for control of the country’s...
...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...
...The round the clock nuclear deterrent is as crucial to Britain’s national security now as it has ever been. We use it everyday to deter extreme threats that cannot be...
...complex and necessarily time-consuming process which can be made more difficult by some legal firms and opponents seeking to use the system for their own ends. Just because an allegation...