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The Ministry of Defence seems as overwhelmed by the challenges to come as it has by those of the last decade. By Alex Stevenson Today’s defence green paper is riddled with admissions of weakness, some tacit and others explicit. The ‘lessons learned’ session is especially frank. In the space of just a few paragraphs the… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff The final round of questions for the defence establishment are being delivered by the Iraq inquiry today. Sir Kevin Tebbit, former permanent secretary at the Ministry of Defence (MoD), said Gordon brown, then chancellor, insisted on a “complete guillotine” of defence spending just months after the invasion. The £1 billion cut was… Read more »