“…Contemporary British defence policy is predicated on the assumption that large, high‐intensity operations will involve the US–UK alliance (Edmunds and Forster 2007, 41). The 2003 Defence White Paper reported a strategic environment where ‘the most demanding expeditionary operations, involving intervention against state adversaries, can only plausibly be conducted if US forces are engaged, either leading a coalition or in NATO’ (Dorman 2008, 22). British defence policy is rooted in a formal commitment to NATO and, indeed, to the European Union, but increasingly appears to be oriented to the English‐speaking ABCA (Australia, Britain, Canada, the US and New Zealand) community (Dorman 2008, 51).…”