DefenceSynergia is pleased to publish here the verbatim record of a speech given by The Chief of the General Staff, General Sir Mark Carleton-Smith KCB CBE ADC Gen at the RUSI Land Warfare Conference on the 2nd June 2021.
Policy
Her Majesty’s Government – 30th April 2021 – Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy 2021: Nuclear Deterrent.
Her Majesty’s Government – 30 April 2021 Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy 2021: nuclear deterrent The 2021 Integrated Review set out the government’s vision for the future. This page outlines what is says about the UK’s nuclear deterrent.
CDS Speech to IISS 31 March 2021 – Integrated Review
DefenceSynergia (DS) is pleased to be able to publish the speech of the Chief of the Defence Staff, General Sir Nick Carter, given to the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) dated 31 March 2021. The speech is a welcome exploration of the Integrated Review and the accompanying Defence Command Paper.
Official Publication of the Defence Command Paper
DefenceSynergia (DS) published HERE, without comment, the recently released Defence Command Paper that was briefed to the House of Commons earlier today.
HMG Draft Armed Forces Bill 2021
DefenceSynergia (DS) is pleased to publish a copy of the Government’s Draft Armed Forces Bill 2021 being introduced to the House of Commons this week. The full text can be viewed HERE.
Defence Secretary’s speech at the RUSI Conference covering the Integrated Review, the spending review settlement and other issues for defence
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
DefenceSynergia Commentary – Ministry of Defence to Cut Reserve Training and Reduce E-3D AWACS Fleet to Save £1Billion Per Annum.
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