Add to ORKGLike most other government departments, the Ministry of Defence has not been spared George Osborne’s axe, and plans to procure two new large aircraft carriers have been significantly affected. In light of a new government report on their construction, Chris Brown finds that we may be about to build carriers only to put them straight into mothballs, and that we may have traded short term savings for long term capabilities
The recent row between Liam Fox and the Treasury over the cost of renewing the UK’s nuclear deterren...
A new, twenty-first-century design of the size of USS Midway with an air wing up to sixty-five aircr...
In 1998, the British government led by Prime Minister Tony Blair released the Strategic Defence Revi...
This week’s review of Britain’s defence spending is the opening salvo of the coalition’s plans to re...
Particularly in the 1964–70 period, the Royal Navy deemed the aircraft carrier an expensive irrele- ...
The UK Royal Navy’s new Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers will give the Navy force projection ...
Defence cannot be exempt from the coalition government’s emergency budget, and the ‘pain’ that David...
In the end, the debate over aircraft carriers always boils down to cost; their acquisition costs are...
The Australian Government's decision to acquire a new aircraft carrier is critically analysed in str...
British defense policy makers have taken a risky gamble for the future of the Royal Navy—they have u...
In early 1992 it had been predicted that the axe would fall on the Navy budget, as on those of the o...
Matthew Partridge of LSE Economic History comments on the likely impacts of today’s budget on defenc...
Past attempts at meaningful Anglo-French defence cooperation have usually derailed quite quickly. Bu...
Following a new announcement of cuts to the UK armed forces, many are asking whether we are seeing B...
In publishing the latest National Security Strategy (NSS) and Strategic Defence and Security Review ...
The recent row between Liam Fox and the Treasury over the cost of renewing the UK’s nuclear deterren...
A new, twenty-first-century design of the size of USS Midway with an air wing up to sixty-five aircr...
In 1998, the British government led by Prime Minister Tony Blair released the Strategic Defence Revi...
This week’s review of Britain’s defence spending is the opening salvo of the coalition’s plans to re...
Particularly in the 1964–70 period, the Royal Navy deemed the aircraft carrier an expensive irrele- ...
The UK Royal Navy’s new Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers will give the Navy force projection ...
Defence cannot be exempt from the coalition government’s emergency budget, and the ‘pain’ that David...
In the end, the debate over aircraft carriers always boils down to cost; their acquisition costs are...
The Australian Government's decision to acquire a new aircraft carrier is critically analysed in str...
British defense policy makers have taken a risky gamble for the future of the Royal Navy—they have u...
In early 1992 it had been predicted that the axe would fall on the Navy budget, as on those of the o...
Matthew Partridge of LSE Economic History comments on the likely impacts of today’s budget on defenc...
Past attempts at meaningful Anglo-French defence cooperation have usually derailed quite quickly. Bu...
Following a new announcement of cuts to the UK armed forces, many are asking whether we are seeing B...
In publishing the latest National Security Strategy (NSS) and Strategic Defence and Security Review ...
The recent row between Liam Fox and the Treasury over the cost of renewing the UK’s nuclear deterren...
A new, twenty-first-century design of the size of USS Midway with an air wing up to sixty-five aircr...
In 1998, the British government led by Prime Minister Tony Blair released the Strategic Defence Revi...