The Future of Uk Air Power

Sabin, Philip

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“…For example, Professor Philip Sabin of King's College London articulated the case for air power in a recent edition of the RUSI Journal, supporting the RAF's enduring attraction to fast jets at the expense of helicopters and transport aircraft. 34 Similarly, Professor Eric Grove of Salford University declared his allegiance with a pro-naval piece in Parliamentary Brief. 35 It is possible that other analysts and academics with a particular (and usually highly expert) service bias-as opposed to an interest in defence more broadly-will also declare their hands over the coming months.…”

Section: Phase 2: Policy Inertiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Breaking the mould: the United Kingdom Strategic Defence Review 2010

Cornish

Dorman

2010

International Affairs

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With a strategic defence review expected to begin in 2010, this article reflects upon the history of the review in British defence policy and planning. The authors argue that for decades successive defence reviews have followed a process in which policy development moves through four phases: failure, inertia, formulation and misimplementation. This has resulted in a cycle of defence reviews that have proved to be incomplete and unsustainable: a cycle in which each review leaves so much unfinished business that another radical reappraisal of defence policy is soon thought necessary, and a cycle from which a succession of governments have so far proved unable or unwilling to escape. The article suggests that the strategic defence (and security) review promised for the next parliament is in danger of continuing this pattern of policy deficiency. The authors contest that this need not be the case. With a close understanding of the pattern of past reviews it should be possible for the 2010 review finally to break the mould and produce a coherent and above all sustainable defence policy and strategy.

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Section: Phase 2: Policy Inertiamentioning

confidence: 99%