On the 70th Anniversary of the most successful military and political alliance in history DefenceSynergia (DS) takes this moment to honour the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) by reproducing the Founding Charter as amended in 2009 to include reference to those Nations that joined after 1949. It is the DS position in all its submissions Continue reading
DefenceSynergia (DS) is indebted to Dr Alan Mendoza Executive Director, The Henry Jackson Society (HJS) for permission to publish this excellent and important report by The Honourable Robert Seely MP and Mr James Rogers offering a new and refreshing Strategic vision for United Kingdom in the 21st century. Something that UK Governments have failed to Continue reading
DefenceSynergia Critique of the Human Security Centre Paper: ‘Fire and Ice A New Maritime Strategy for the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Northern Flank DefenceSynergia(DS) is grateful to Dr Rowan Allport and the Human Security Centre(HSC) for permission to publish and review their paper ‘Fire and Ice – A New Maritime Strategy for the North Atlantic Continue reading
DefenceSynergia (DS) is pleased to publish the UK’s Combat Air Strategy 2018 This is welcome if well overdue given that UK has published a myriad of strategy light documents since 2010. The misnamed National Security Strategy (NSS) spawned two Strategic Defence and Security Reviews (SDSR 2010 and 2015) and the fallout in turn generated the Continue reading
Press conference by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the conclusion of the Brussels Summit Nice words, where is the substance? Good afternoon. We have had a very good summit. Over the past two days, we have taken major decisions to strengthen NATO’s deterrence and defence. To step up in the fight against terrorism. And Continue reading
DS is pleased to be able to post Sir John Parker’s summary letter to the Secretary of State for Defence and Chief Secretary to the Treasury covering his findings, conclusions and recommendations for a UK National Shipbuilding Strategy. On first reading, notwithstanding some reservations DS still holds over the terms of reference that confined Sir John, we congratulate him Continue reading
DS is pleased to publish the NAO impact assessment into SDSR 2015. We note that the NAO has used the word ‘risk’ more than once and alongside ‘future’ this accords to some degree with the DS earlier assessment that SDSR 2015 did not fully address capability gaps in the short term – which translates as risk – Continue reading