The China-Cook Island's Comprehensive Strategic Partnership draws the island nation into a rising competition in the pacific ...

James Sullivan, director of Cyber and Tech at defence think tank Rusi, notes there are also some questions around cyberspace. "China's activities in cyberspace appear to be more strategically and ...

Income tax currently raises 11 per cent of national income. So this extra 1 per cent for defence could be financed by increasing income tax revenue by 10 per cent." ...

Professor Malcolm Chalmers, deputy director general of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), warned that moving too rapidly to achieve the 3 per cent target -such as trying to achieve it during ...

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Matthew Savill of the Royal United Services Institute think-tank, said: “Given the existing pressures in the budget, and the need to rebuild the foundations of defence, it’s very unlikely that the ...

Old airframes do exist in stock, but bringing them back to operational condition and upgrading their systems to Tu-95MS or Tu-22M3 standard would be extremely expensive and take many years to start ...

Disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration following the dissolution of the PKK will be a process with no recent ...

The review majors on 'warfighting readiness' and a 'whole of society approach', yet, unlike European allies such as Germany, Norway, Sweden, Estonia and Lithuania, the government has decided not to ...

While the Review points to the need to recapitalise defence and invest in new technologies, it is less clear about the timescale for getting there. In part, this reflects concerns about the capacity ...

The SDR sets out a new vision for the way the Armed Forces must be built and fight to remain relevant in modern warfare. But it is light on the choices necessary to achieve this, leaving most of the ...

There is a risk of drawing the wrong conclusions about Chinese and Western air capabilities from the recent clashes if Indian ...