FDR: Options for Britain's Defence and Security

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: Options for Britain's Defence and Security

: Working Paper Series

Number 1
Preparing for the Lean Years
How will British defence spending fare in an age of austerity?
By Malcolm Chalmers

Number 2
A Force for Honour
Military Strategic Options for the United Kingdom
By Michael Codner

Number 3
Multilateral Approaches to Security
Choices for defence
By Andrew Rathmell

Number 4
Jointery and the Emerging Defence Review
By Trevor Taylor

Number 5
Capability Cost Trends: Implications for the Defence Review
By Malcolm Chalmers

FDR: Options for Britain's Defence and Security

In advance of a future review of defence, RUSI identifies the important areas of defence policy that must be addressed in light of the changing character of twenty-first century warfare, military utility, and reduced government spending in the future.

Historically government defence reviews are undertaken to decide defence policy and the resources and means necessary to achieve these objectives. Such reviews are both contentious and sensitive, for defence policy is intimately related to the protection and projection of national interest abroad as well as defending national security at home. More >

Future Defence Review Working Papers

This series provides independent analysis and opinion on issues that are likely to feature in a Future Defence Review.

LATEST WORKING PAPER

Capability Cost Trends:
Implications for the Defence Review

By Malcolm Chalmers
Working Paper Number 5

Continuing growth in the unit costs of UK defence capabilities, together with cuts in the defence budget, will make it impossible to preserve current numbers of service personnel and front-line capability.

RUSI's latest Future Defence Review Paper argues that the UK’s Armed Forces face personnel cuts of 20% over the next six years.

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