I was just logging on to make a presentation at a European defence workshop, when Lord George Robertson’s ‘weapons not welfare’ speech bro...

 Following the publication of its new Defence Strategy, the UK Government has now released its Defence Industrial Strategy , titled 'Mak...

  The much-trailed UK Strategic Defence Review (SDR) was  published  yesterday. It was timely for me as I was participating in a European se...

 The new Labour Secretary of State for Defence has announced a defence review . This is not just a routine action for new governments, but a...

I was involved in a panel discussion about defence expenditure this week. A trade union activist I greatly respect justified his argument ag...

The Scottish Government has published the latest policy paper in its Building a New Scotland series, An Independent Scotland’s Place in the...

Everyone is suddenly talking about defence. Britain’s Chief of the General Staff, General Sir Patrick Sanders, discussed a ‘citizen’s army’....

I was at the Scottish Parliament’s Cross Party Group on Maritime and Shipbuilding this afternoon to present a report I wrote for Prospect,...

All governments have a defence strategy, which typically outlines the threats and how the government proposes to respond to those threats. T...

I was in Westminster this week at the launch of a paper on defence procurement I wrote for the Prospect trade union.  The launch included in...

The replacement of the Trident missile system cannot be justified on moral, economic or defence grounds. That's the conclusion of a new ...

Trident is an expensive status symbol that has no military value and drains resources from conventional defence and socially useful investm...

The idea that there is, ' more than a negligible chance that the possession of nuclear weapons might play a decisive future role in th...