Defence of the Realm

Suddenly in the news again is Afghanistan, with the BBC trailing its programme , "The Lion's Last Roar", to be shown on BBC...

With only the tiniest tip of a huge iceberg poking out into the public domain, we learn from  the BBC  and others that the British gov...

Edward Leigh – he of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) – is at it again, his committee this time reporting on the ill-starred Type 45 Des...

Six British soldiers were missing and believed to have been killed after their Warrior MICV was hit by an explosion while they were on patr...

The British administration is to purchase for the RAF another Boeing C-17 strategic transport aircraft (pictured above), bringing the total...

One of the things I particularly enjoyed about Overlord , Max Hasting's book about the 1944 Normandy landings, is the way he interweave...

As an antidote to Sandy Gall , in the current edition of The Week , we have Crispin Black on "The terrible truth about our wasted sac...

At the end of January, I wrote a review of a review of Sandy Gall's book on Afghanistan, War against the Taliban , a book which purport...

A series of leaks on the progress of the war, and then a report on what appear to be plans for an expedited US withdrawal, have had the med...

You would have thought that, given the huge number of column inches devoted to the diverse and expensive defence procurement failures, the M...

France's Rafale has emerged as preferred bidder in a $11 billion contest to supply India with 126 fighters, says Reuters . They have u...

In a new book reviewed by the Great Sage Con Coughlin , we have Sandy Gall, the former ITN presenter, give an account of the views of the ...

The past reaches out to bring back unwelcome memories, this time the fate of Acting Corporal Marcin Wojtak , who died on 1 October 2009 whe...

Following the story we did on the Super Tucano three days ago , I am reminded of just how long ago it was that when we were pursuing the is...

A small piece of news to start the New Year has had a very small band of defence analysts and journalists intrigued. This is the winner of ...

Ministers, we are told are considering proposals under which the private sector could play a large role in the procurement of weapons and ...

Hailed by its publishers as the first book on Britain's occupation of Iraq during 2003-2009, this of course is by no means the first. T...

We last looked at the ill-fated Kajaki Dam project in June last , when we concluded that it was a complete waste of time, money, effort – a...

We should be grateful, I suppose, that we have a parliamentary committee of public accounts (PAC), chaired by the redoubtable (irony) Marg...