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“It Reads Like Daleks Speaking at a Management Consultancy Conference” - Thoughts on the Defence Review Paper
The MOD has published its long awaited
Defence Review document, intended to support the findings of the
Integrated Review, published on Mon 15 March. The new MOD document sets out the role of the armed forces in trying to deliver the Defence part of this strategy.
The document is designed to set out what Defence will do, how it will do it and with what equipment and forces against various roles. On paper this is supposed to be the biggest change to the British Armed Forces since the Cold War.
Does it work though, or is it missing something?
To be honest, this is an extremely difficult blog to write. Since 2011 the whole purpose of the ThinPinstripedLine blog has been to offer positive commentary on defence issues and approaching things from the perspective that difficult decisions must be made, often for good reason, and that this isn’t always obvious to the outsider. The site has attracted a lot of attention and at times abuse, for trying to give the MOD the benefit of the doubt, and in trying to provide positive support and context.
The problem that the author has with this report is that it feels very thin on the ground, and that it is hard to defend or put a positive spin on something that is so markedly lacking in detail......