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For a Defence Industrial Strategy to be impactful, it must engender an industrial base that is every bit as adaptive as the Armed Forces need to be, a...

Australia to Join UK-Led Carrier Strike Group With US, Japan, Dutch Navies Australia is joining forces with the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan, and the Netherlands for naval exercises in the Indo-Pacific in a show of strength that an expert says marks the UK’s return as a global maritime power as it seeks to protect its interest in the face of an expansionist China. The U.S. and UK defence secretaries co-signed the UK-US Joint Declaration for the Carrier Strike Group 2021 deploymen...

'In the past the Armed Forced have been popular with the British public, but we were not well understood'

Democracy Damaged Amid CCP Virus, China’s Threat Highlighted Says Britains Defence Staff Chief The CCP virus crisis has both highlighted the nature of China’s threat to the West and drawn democracies around the world toward authoritarianism, Britain’s Chief of Defence Staff, General Nick Carter has said. The pandemic has served as a reminder that the modus operandi of “our authoritarian rivals,” has “diversified markedly,” Carter said in his annual Royal United Services Institute ...

Chief of Defence Staff speech RUSI Annual lecture General Sir Nick Carter GCB CBE DSO ADC Gen, Chief of Defence Staffs speech the Annual RUSI Conference. From: 17 December 2020 (Transcript of the speech, exactly as it was delivered) It’s a great pleasure once again to be giving the annual CDS Christmas Lecture at RUSI, even if this year it feels somewhat weird doing so in an empty room and in a temporary building. But, it has been quite a year – particularly with the announcement last ...

Defence Secretarys speech on Defence Reform 14 Dec 2020 Defence Secretarys speech on Defence Reform Defence Secretarys speech at the RUSI Conference covering the Integrated Review, the spending review settlement and other issues for defence. Good morning, I would like to thank RUSI for giving me the opportunity to start setting out the reasoning behind the defence proposition for the Integrated Review and the MOD’s direction of travel from this point. When last month the Prime Minister ...