DefenceSynergia (DS) has long advocated that the UK requires ‘true Carrier Strike’ capability in order to help meet the government’s ‘Global Britain’ mantra – what we take to mean ‘Strategic Aim’. As such DS has fully supported the development, build, and introduction into service of the Queen Elizabeth Class (QEC) carriers – HMS Queen Elizabeth Continue reading
DefenceSynergia (DS) has recently written to the Public Accounts and Defence Committees following-up on the 2020 National Audit Office NAO report into Carrier Strike. It is therefore timely that the NAO has itself released its most recent report into the MOD’s 2020/2030 Equipment Plan which they claim still indicates an element of underfunding despite the Continue reading
It is rare to read a narrative from a serving person. DefenceSynergia is saddened to read of the real challenges faced by some of those serving. The issues are likely applicable across the Armed Forces and, although they are not new, they are rarely heard. Action on ‘The say not do gap’. is clearly Continue reading
For DefenceSynergia (DS) it is encouraging to see the Secretary of State for Defence supporting innovation and the development of strategy in his 11th December 2020 speech to the Royal United Services Institute. As he says, “The consequences of decades of SDSRs that were over-ambitious and under-funded, were fast coming ‘home to roost’. All of Continue reading
It appears to DefenceSynergia (DS) that the old adage ‘what one gives with one hand can be taken back with the other’ applies to our Prime Minister (PM). The Secretary of State for Defence, The Right Honourable Mr Ben Wallace MP, has declared that the Ministry of Defence (MOD) must find £1bn in savings next Continue reading
Although DefenceSynergia (DS) is tri-service we are not always able to cover British Army issues in the depth we would like. It is therefore welcome that the UK Land Forces website, amongst others, provides useful professional input on the subject. One such major article came to our attention recently entitled “Learning from how our Allies’ Continue reading
DefenceSynergia (DS) publishes below the Secretary of State for Defence written statement to Parliament on the recent contribution and deployment of British Forces to the United Nations Mission in Mali. To help with orientation and context we also offer sight of the official United Nations Security Council (UNSC) September 2020 Situation Report on Mali: