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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...

Instead of delivering a strategy, the prime minister’s defence review was an exercise in political opportunism ‘Boris Johnson’s brief Commons speech gave a clear indication of the extremely limited purpose of the exercise, as he sees it. It was a terrible, and terribly cynical, speech.’ Photograph: UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/PA ‘Boris Johnson’s brief Commons speech gave a clear indication of the extremely limited purpose of the exercise, as he sees it. It was a terrible, and terribly cynical, speech.’ Photograph: UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/PA Wed 17 Mar 2021 13.02 EDT Last ...

SHARE When UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrives in India this spring he will not only be glowing with delight at his Covid vaccination success but confident that Britain is about reassert itself as a major global security player. For that to happen, this coming Tuesday will prove a pivotal moment when Mr Johnson's interpretation of ‘Global Britain’ is spelt out with ambitious new goals for the UK as a military, diplomatic and intelligence power. Mr Johnson hopes to set a fresh course for Britain when he announces the Integrated Review, the biggest strategic shake-up in decades, signall...

Sunday, 14 Feb 2021 Asian pivot: Four F-35B Lightning jets land on HMS Queen Elizabeth for the first Carrier Sea Training. — UK Defence Ministry/Jakarta Post/ANN DURING these unprecedented times when the UK needs to redefine its place in the future of the mid- 21st century, they give the job of designing their Grand Strategy to none other than a historian. John Bew, a professor in history and foreign policy at the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, is not the most obvious choice to lead this great strategy that will shape the post-Brexit era, but irony...