Defence of the Realm

Flashback to Thursday 22 June 2006 and the House of Commons, where Tory backbench MP Ann Winterton challenged defence minister Adam Ingram ...

UPDATED : A Royal Marine from 45 Commando has been killed and another seriously injured after yet another suicide attack on a "Snatch...

In the great tradition of the free-enterprise de Haviland Mosquito fighter bomber of World War II, BAE Systems has this week unveiled a comp...

There was something close approaching joy in the EU Referendum household this morning at the sight of The Daily Telegraph with its front p...

Should we give half a cheer that at least one newspaper has picked up on Dannatt's plea for more resources to be devoted to the armed fo...

There is a certain child-like naïveté to the media coverage of General Dannett's remarks which has now run unabated for two days, takin...

Front page of the Daily Mail would have us believe that the newly appointed Chief of General Staff, General Sir Richard Dannatt has launche...

We have spent considerable time chuntering that the MSM does not give any space to defence procurement. Now, however, equipping the armed f...

As troubles multiply for the European aerospace giant EADS, the Financial Times has been quoting Airbus Chief Executive Christian Streiff ...

Tucked in to the Boy King's closing speech yesterday afternoon was this little gem: Our armed forces are doing important work in Afghan...

The news that almost 180 British soldiers have been recommended for gallantry awards for their efforts in Afghanistan, including "sever...

Having dealt in a little detail with the Afghan situation on Sunday, what is particularly remarkable about the piece to follow is that it ci...

It must have been a slow news day yesterday because Sir Richard Dannatt, the Army's new Chief of the General Staff, stayed on most of th...

As with Kremlinology, you look for clues where you can find them – and they are beginning to suggest that there has been a sea change in Bri...

If one were to try and guess what either or both Basil Liddell Hart (left) and JFC Fuller were thinking at this moment – presumably as they ...

Under the heading, "They deserve more", The Sunday Telegraph today is launching a campaign to "get the Government to reward ...

Via The Times , agencies and others, we learn with great regret that the Army lost three more soldiers in Afghanistan yesterday, with 11 oth...

A crop of letters in the Telegraph today (double-click to enlarge), under the heading, "Armed Forces deaths are the result of a lack ...