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

Number 6
The Defence Review: Capability Questions for the New Government
By Michael Codner

Number 7
A Question of Balance? The Deficit and Defence Priorities
By Malcolm Chalmers

Events

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

A Question of Balance? The Deficit and Defence Priorities

By Malcolm Chalmers
Working Paper Number 7

The deeper the immediate budget cuts that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has to make, the greater the risk of reduced capability without commensurate financial gains, argues the latest Future Defence Review Working Paper from the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).

Download here: http://www.rusi.org/downloads/assets/FDR7.pdf

The Defence Review:
Capability Questions for the New Government
By Michael Codner

Working Paper Number 6

The new Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government must address the most basic question affecting the Defence Review and Britain's position in the world 'how much is the nation prepared to pay for defence?', according to a Future Defence Review Working Paper from the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).

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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.

Download: http://www.rusi.org/downloads/assets/FDR_5.pdf

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