DefenceSynergia is pleased to publish the attached National Audit Office Departmental Overview of the Ministry of Defence for the 2018/2019 FY. It provides a very useful and helpful aide-memoire. HERE
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Military Experience and Covid-19
Military Experience and Covid-19 DefenceSynergia (DS) has been consistent in its message to Government that for Her Majesty’s Armed Forces to be cohesive and fit for purpose five principal areas must be defined and funded: Readiness, Responsiveness, Resilience, Regeneration and Capacity (R4C). Failure to do so risks incoherence and reduced military effectiveness that would Continue reading
March 2020 NATO report – ‘Science and Technology Trends 2020 to 2040
DefenceSynergia (DS) is pleased to publish a March 2020 NATO report – ‘Science and Technology Trends 2020 to 2040. We wonder if it is not a warning too – a compendium of potential ‘Threats’ for NATO to match or master. DS would argue that HMG’s oft-quoted mantra that quality not quantity is the way ahead Continue reading
SIPRI Global Military Expenditure in 2019 – Data published April 2020
DefenceSynergia welcomes the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) latest report on Global Military Spending for 2019 dated April 2020. Observers of United Kingdom defence spending will be interested to note that SIPRI now show (Table 1 page 2) that the UK has fallen from 7th place in 2018 to 8th in 2019, below France 6th and Continue reading
United Kingdom Defence Logistics Lessons in a Post Covid–19 World
The writer of this opinion piece is a founding member of DefenceSynergia (DS). However, the views expressed are the author’s own and not those of DS. For the older ‘loggies’ among us there are a number of terms that now seem to have drifted into obscurity – ‘earmarks’, ‘war reserves’, ‘meantime between replacement or failure’, Continue reading
MoD Equipment Plan 2019-2029
DefenceSynergia is pleased to publish the Ministry of Defence (MoD) 2019 to 2029 Equipment Plan. However, a recent National Audit Office (NAO) report said this…”Today the National Audit Office (NAO) reports that the Ministry of Defence’s Equipment Plan (the Plan) is still unaffordable, with the MoD estimating that costs will be £2.9 billion higher than Continue reading
No Strategy, No Public Discourse – Royal Navy Escorts 2021
DefenceSynergia (DS) is most grateful to Christopher Samuel, a former Royal Navy officer and founder member of DS, for providing the following short commentary on the state of the United Kingdom’s (UK) maritime defences. The issues covered become more pertinent in view of Her Majesty’s Government decision to launch a new review of UK security Continue reading