カテゴリー: Defence policy
Letter to defence secretary says promise of visas is hollow without plan to evacuate guards from Afghanistan Dozens of cross-party MPs have signed a letter to the defence secretary calling on him to evacuate all the guards who provided security for the…
Ministers are becoming openly critical of Joe Biden after being left in the dark about major decisionsSo much for the special relationship. As the Afghanistan crisis has unfolded, it has precipitated a high-speed deterioration in Anglo-American relatio…
PM’s request to be made at G7 summit as Taliban increases grip on access to flightsBoris Johnson will lobby Joe Biden at the G7 leaders’ summit, No 10 has said, pleading with him to keep US troops at Kabul airport beyond the end of August, after a week…
The families will be funded for just four months, says one readerI am sure that your readers will feel relieved at the generosity of our government towards the Afghan interpreters arriving in the UK, as detailed by Chris Philp, minister for immigration…
Chris Philp, the immigration compliance minister, outlines the work of the Home Office in safeguarding interpreters, while Barry Young says joined-up thinking is needed and Peter Simm highlights the danger to asylum seekers being told to relocate to Ka…
Militants’ advance continues as Britain nears end of its two-decade deployment to countryThe Taliban’s rapid advance through northern Afghanistan continued on Sunday with more than a dozen districts falling to the militants, as Britain entered the fina…
A reconsideration of Britain’s place in the world is necessary. But this paper fails to meet the challenges of the 21st century The integrated review offers a nostalgic – at times, even anachronistic – response to the challenges of the 21st century. It…
MoD wants to procure cheaper armed drones for UK as it studies lessons from recent conflict in Nagorno-KarabakhThe UK’s military is expected to embark on a new armed drone programme in response to Azerbaijan’s controversial use of the technology in its…
The Afghanistan papers revealed the same kind of US official groupthink that prolonged the Vietnam war – but where, over 18 years of bloodshed, is the outrage?It’s coincidental – but fitting – that the so-called Afghanistan papers were published in the…