The Speech Good evening – it’s a great privilege to be with you this evening to give my first annual Chief of the Defence Staff lecture precisely six months after I started in the job. And without getting overly excited I guess there’s never been a better week for a CDS to be controversial …but Continue reading
DS has constantly warned that the Defence funding settlement is threatened by MOD’s failure to control overpriced, often over specified and some dubious quality weapon systems programmes – the F35B Lightning II being the most recent and possibly the most contentious as even now, as the first aircraft are delivered, it remains an open ended technical and Continue reading
DS is pleased to publish the MOD Main Estimates for FY 2018/19 Main estimates 2018-2019
Whether one agrees or disagrees with the UK’s launch of Storm Shadow at Syria on 13 Apr 18, the Prime Minister had the luxury of selecting this low risk military option. The UK support to the US, UK French coordinated joint action was contributed by Royal Air Force Tornado GR4 aircraft which launched the Storm Shadow Continue reading
The Summary of the official OPCW Report into the UK Salisbury Incident. OPCW -TECHNICAL SECRETARIAT
DS is aware that in 1992 the West knew of Novichok through the data provided by a defecting Russian scientist; see document in link here. (table2, page 25) Yet the two most recent Threat trend analyses for and by HMG hardly mention CBRN via state actors; see documents in links here. It bothers DS Continue reading
DefenceSynergia (DS) notes with increasing concern numerous recent media articles that appear to confirm MOD’s intent to sell HMS Ocean to Brazil is not merely a possibility but an active policy. HMS Ocean’s sale price to Brazil appears to be in the region of £85 million for a ship which came out of a £65 Continue reading