Defence in the Media: Tuesday 18 September 2018

Defence news today includes further reporting on the MOD's development of leading drone and robot technology to test for chemical agents. Project Minerva The Western Daily Press and The Times...
Defence news today includes further reporting on the MOD's development of leading drone and robot technology to test for chemical agents. Project Minerva The Western Daily Press and The Times...
...Telegraph reports that the Defence Secretary has sent a message to Russian President Vladimir Putin by becoming the first Western minister outside of Ukraine to visit Marinka in the east...
...Russia The Independent and the Telegraph report that Russia’s foreign ministry has complained of a “strange hysteria” over Moscow’s actions in Syria, as western countries expressed concerns over apparent preparations...
...income to stop ‘chaos spreading from the Western Mediterranean to the Black sea’. The article states that the rise of ISIL and the increase in Russian aggression mean Britain’s 2010...
...here. Ebola The Sun and regional outlets, including the Western Morning News, report that that RFA Argus is on its way home fromSierra Leone and is set to receive the...
Items of Defence interest included in broadcast bulletins this morning include reports of the launch by the Iraqi government to “take back” Ramadi and surrounding western Anbar province from ISIL....
...pro-Government forces in western Anbar, a day after Baghdad began a new offensive to drive them from the province. Queen’s speech In a long article about the Queen’s speech, The...
...and former defence minister Andrew Robathan are among nearly 90 Western public figures understood to have been placed on a Russian travel blacklist, which is being seen as the latest...
...should be cut. The paper also speculates that Western countries that fail to spend more than two per cent of their national income on defence could be “named and shamed”...
...that many have accused Kurdish forces of committing human rights abuses, and Western governments of doing too little to end the civil war in Syria. The UK continues to play...