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A report to inform National Shipbuilding Strategy

29th November 2016 DS_Admin

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

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NAO report into the impact of SDSR 2015

15th June 201615th June 2016 DS_Admin

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

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British Strategy in an Age of Uncertainty

20th November 201520th November 2015 DS_Admin

DS is pleased to publish Dr James Bosbotinis’s  most welcome paper on UK strategy. British Strategy in an Age of Uncertainty

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British defence doctrine

UK Official Papers and Doctrine Documents

Click on the links below to download the UK official doctrine documents (PDFs)

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A benefit, not a burden The security, economic and strategic value of Britain’s defence industry

27th April 201527th April 2015 DS_Webmaster

Click here to download (PDF) By Andrew Dorman, Matthew Uttley and Benedict Wilkinson King’s College London April 2015

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Rationale for a United Kingdom defence industrial strategy

27th April 201527th April 2015 DS_Admin

INTRODUCTION It has been cogently argued by the Chair of the Public Administration Select Committee (PASC), The Hon Bernard Jenkin MP, that Her Majesty’s Government (HMG) does not have an articulated Grand Strategy for the UK.

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DS UK strategic capabilities paper

14th April 201522nd April 2015 DS_Admin

Summary 1. This paper draws largely upon written evidence to the House of Commons Defence Committee,  ‘The Tipping Point’ a paper by Bernard Jenkin MP and George Grant, a DS Future UK Strategy paper sent to the Chair of the Public Administration Select Committee in July 2011 and the National Security Strategy (NSS).

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