The forthcoming UK Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) is being conducted in a most politically charged climate. While the elevation of defence to the top of the political agenda has been a long time coming, the only definitive message that has emerged over recent weeks is that the UK government has already concluded that the current defence programme is unaffordable and big changes are on their way. As a result it faces a huge challenge in deciding what to do about it. Speaking at the RUSI on 14 June, Defence Secretary Liam Fox said that the SDSR would have to make a clean break from the thinking of the past and will be “ruthless and without sentiment”.

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