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 (DS) is indebted to Politics Home and The House Magazine of the House Commons for the sight of an article by Lord Robertson covering the Government’s Integrated Review. Lord Robertson was Secretary-General of NATO (1999 to 2003) and British Defence Secretary (1997 to 1999) – at which time he initiated the well-received Strategic Defence Continue reading
Whilst UK MOD dithers over T31e frigate contracts and HMG struggle to fund five the Japanese MOD and industry just gets on with it. In 2017 the Japanese Government decided to increase the tempo of its warship building programme to combat Chinese activity. Three years later the first 2 (of 22) new 5500 ton multi-purpose Continue reading
Below is the transcript of an open letter that DS has sent to the Right Honourable Penny Mordaunt MP DefenceSynergia (DS) congratulates you on your appointment as Secretary of State for Defence and wishes you every success, believing that security and defence will be in safe and capable hands. Some years ago we met you Continue reading
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 has noted that MOD officials, possibly not the NAO, are confident that the Dreadnought (Successor) Programme is on budget. Reading the MOD report one cannot but be mesmerised by some of the slick wording…“In Summer 2017, the Department completed a baseline review of the submarine portfolio that confirmed the programme remains within its estimated Continue reading
The oral evidence provided on the 5th of December to the House of Commons Defence Committee (HCDC) inquiry into UK Amphibious Warfare capability can be accessed here. http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/71a68c0d-db9f-4af0-a27b-928dd5831271 The evidence of Maj Gen Julian Thompson and Lt Gen Sir Robert Fry echoed much of the written evidence that DefenceSynergia (DS) is submitting to the Continue reading