DEFENCE INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY
Britain’s long awaited Defence Industrial Strategy 2025 (DIS 25) has been released. It commits the Government to the largest sustained uplift in defence spending since the Cold War and seeks to complement the ambition of Strategic Defence Review 2025 (SDR 25). It sets a short-term target of raising spending from 2% of GDP to 2.6% by 2027, declaring an “ambition” in the medium term for 3% by 2030 in the next Parliament. ...Ultimately, the Autumn budget expected in November will be the litmus test as to the feasibility and sustainability of this DIS and with it how close the British Army can get to the ambition of SDR 25.
