Burnham’s real defence challenge will be delivery
Andy Burnham has inherited a Defence Investment Plan with a funding problem, but it will be judged on how fast capability reaches the front line, writes Angus Fay.
A request for help that looked designed to be refused
Scotland's justice secretary had already been told the RAF had no waterbombing helicopters in the UK to send, but he asked anyway and then made a point of the refusal, which is not how military aid between two governments is supposed to work.
Maritime autonomy: the race is on for the Navy of the future
Anthony Kirby, Group Chief Executive of Serco, argues that the race to build effective autonomous naval fleets will be decided by how quickly governments, industry and the military can integrate new technology at scale.
Why the underwater battlespace demands urgent innovation
Cables cut in the Baltic, Russian ships over UK pipelines. The underwater battlespace is back, writes Tim O'Neill of BAE Systems, and subsea communications are the weak link.
The lesson from Ukraine the Defence Plan left out
The Defence Investment Plan funds the drones but hesitates over the spine they depend on, writes Thomas Santini of Lodestar.
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