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Graphic Online BY: BBC 30.5k Shares 705 The government is pledging to reshape an "outdated international system" to better protect the UK's interests and values, in a year-long review of post-Brexit foreign and defence policy. New alliances should be formed as the UK shifts focus towards Indo-Pacific countries such as India, Japan and Australia, it says. The review also paves the way for an increase in nuclear warheads. Labour says the strategy will leave the UK "woefully unprepared". Prime Minister Boris Johnson will later detail the results of the Integrated Review of security, defence, de...

The British aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth arrives in New York on October 19, 2018. (CNN)Russia is Britain's top security challenge, the UK will build more nuclear weapons and London will expand its presence in the high-tech realms of space and cyberspace, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Tuesday in a sweeping review of British military and foreign policy. To accomplish its goals, the British government wants to increase defense spending by £24 billion ($33.3 billion) over the next four years, a large increase on the £42.2 billion it spent in 2019-2020. The government also ple...

Like Brexit, Boris Johnson's vision for 'global Britain' is an idea not a policy Martin Kettle Defence reviews and foreign policy resets come and go in British politics. Some of their conclusions struggle to survive sustained contact with the real world. Most are remembered only by defence specialists and whichever armed service does well – or badly – out of the reordered spending that is each review’s core purpose. Occasionally, there is a substantial exception, a defence review that embodies a real strategic decision that resonates across the years, both in the wider w...

  The United Kingdom has announced it will build more nuclear weapons and expand its space and cybercrime capabilities while also labeling Russia it's top security challenge, in a sweeping review of British military and foreign policy.  In an report endorsed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the UK said the British government wants to increase defense spending by £24 billion ($33.3 billion) over the next four years, a while also pledging £15 billion for research and development for science and technology, more than £17 billion to fight climate change and promote biodiversity, and £13 bil...