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Committing Britain to War in Helmand, 2005-06Ten years after British troops entered Afghanistan, a new book dissects the strategic decisions that took the UK to war in Helmand.
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Reforming Defence
RUSI.org brings together leading historians to explore military problems of the present from the perspective of the past.
Summer 2010
Reforming Defence
Learning lessons from past Defence Reviews
RUSI's Third Military History and Policy Series considers the effects of previous British Defence Reviews, observing the results of differing strategies and drawing out the lessons which can learned and applied to contemporary defence policies.
Articles
Learning lessons from past Defence Reviews
Professor Edward Spiers
Can Richard Haldane's reforms, responsible for the best organised expeditionary force of the twentieth century, provide a basis for the current Strategic Defence Review?
Problems of Setting Strategic Priorities: The Inskip Defence Review of 1937-38
Professor George Peden
With the balance of short- and long-term requirements increasingly relevant to current defence considerations, the Inskip Defence review provides a lesson in keeping doors open.
Inter-service rivalry: British defence policy, 1956-1968
Dr Ian Speller
As we enter an era of declining access on a global scale, the UK armed forces must learn from Cold War disjointery and end its historic inter-service rivalry.
Dodging the Bullet and Ducking the Question: British Defence Policy and its Post-Imperial World Role
Dr Oliver Daddow
After the Second World War, Britain's defence policy was based on an imperialist mindset which was outdated and overambitious. Spearheaded by Churchill, this cognitive framework continues today and is the basis for shortcomings in our current defence policy.
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