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The Integrated Review heralds a step change in how the UK engages and operates across the world. The Defence Command Paper has now set out what it means for defence. Strategic Command will be at the heart of the modernisation of the UK’s armed forces. Why it was necessary The threats of today are different from those we are used...

Yesterday, the Prime Minister announced the Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy (the IR). The review is the most comprehensive articulation of a defence, foreign and national security approach published by a British Government in decades. Building on the £24-billion multi-year settlement announced in November, defence will continue its shift to modernise our forces across sea, land,...

On the night of 28 June 2007 at a junction codenamed Orange 13, I watched the deceptively slow flight of an RPG-7 heading our way before it ricocheted off the road and streaked over our heads. Moments before and yards away, four soldiers had been caught in a blast bomb as we secured a route for a vulnerable logistics convoy....

Published 30 December 2020 Last updated 31 December 2020 + show all updates 31 December 2020 Corrected entry and added new heading labelled Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE). 30 December 2020 First published. >> Click to visit source

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