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Cold Response preparations ramp up
Royal Navy news: 27 February 2020 Combined British and Dutch elements of the Norwegian-led task group heading for demanding Arctic […]
NATO
RAF Typhoons Demonstrate Breadth and Scale of NATO Air Policing Mission
RAF Press Release Royal Air Force Typhoon fighters have taken part in a demonstration of the breadth and scale of […]
How important is NATO to British defence policy?
Kenton White, University of Reading While the relationship between North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and the UK during the alliance’s 70-year […]
RAF to Patrol Icelandic Skies for NATO
RAF press release 13th Nov RAF Typhoons have arrived in Iceland where they will spend the next month protecting the […]
RAF Typhoon fighters exercise with USAF B-52 Bombers
RAF press release 28th Oct RAF Typhoon fighter jets based at RAF Coningsby have exercised with visiting US B-52 bombers […]
He can-not be serious: Trump’s betrayal of the Kurds.
It is hard to comprehend the logic of Mr Trump’s decision to withdraw US forces from the Kurdish occupied areas […]
Defence Spending increase: is it real?
In the Spending Round speech on the 4th of this month, the new Chancellor announced a boost to spending on […]
2 Para prepare for deployment to Afghanistan.
Army press release 7th Aug Colchester-based 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment (2 PARA) is deploying to the Afghan capital Kabul […]
Lt Gen Tim Radford is next DSACEUR
General Radford was commissioned into The Light Infantry in 1985. Promoted colonel in 2005, went on to command 19 Light […]
20th Armd Inf Bde say farewell to Paderborn
For almost 70 years 20th Armoured Infantry Brigade, also known as “The Iron Fist Brigade”, have been stationed in Germany […]
Task Group flies UK flag at Europe’s biggest maritime event
Eight Royal Navy warships have completed their time in the spotlight after flying the flag for Britain at Europe’s biggest […]
Gulf of Oman attacks: how merchant ships can keep safe in dangerous waters
Robert McCabe, Coventry University The latest attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman have once again highlighted […]
Brexit, the EU Army and NATO
The whole question of the UK leaving the increasingly tightly integrated European project raises some interesting military/political issues – and […]
Arctic training reaches fiery end in Sweden
Three months of intensive training for Britain’s winter warfare specialists reached its climax as Royal Marines ‘fought’ Swedes and Finns […]
We war-gamed an escalation of the Ukraine-Russia crisis – here’s what it taught us about the real world
‘Games without frontiers, war without tears …’ Kirillir_makarov Holger Nehring, University of Stirling and Megan Dee, University of Stirling It […]
British 3-star is new Deputy Commander LANDCOM
A British general has been appointed to the post of Deputy Commander, LANDCOM, replacing Italian Army Lt. Gen. Paolo […]
Brexit: Spare a thought for the UK’s defence planners
TMT once again has, somewhat reluctantly, given in to the need to touch upon the recent events to do […]
The UK will not join a European army
A few years ago, General Sir Richard Shirreff wrote a book called “War with Russia”, about a war started by […]
Trump and the threat to withdraw from the 1987 INF treaty.
The announcement that Trump might pull out of the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty is, on the face of […]
Are Germany’s armed forces in terminal decline?
Cast your minds back, Dear Readers, to the good old days when you knew who your enemy was. The […]