Download or read book Making British Defence Policy written by Robert Self and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the process by which defence policy is made in contemporary Britain and the institutions, actors and conflicting interests which interact in its inception and continuous reformulation. Rather than dealing with the substance of defence policy, this study focuses upon the institutional actors involved in this process. This is a subject which has commanded far more interest from public, Parliament, government and the armed forces since the protracted, bloody and ultimately unsuccessful British military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. The work begins with a discussion of two contextual factors shaping policy. The first relates to the impact of Britain’s ‘special relationship’ with the United States over defence and intelligence matters, while the second considers the impact of Britain’s relatively disappointing economic performance upon the funding of British defence since 1945. It then goes on to explore the role and impact of all the key policy actors, from the Prime Minister, Cabinet and core executive, to the Ministry of Defence and its relations with the broader ‘Whitehall village’, and the Foreign Office and Treasury in particular. The work concludes by examining the increasing influence of external policy actors and forces, such as Parliament, the courts, political parties, pressure groups and public opinion. This book will be of much interest to students of British defence policy, security studies, and contemporary military history.
Download or read book British Defence Policy Since 1945 written by Ritchie Ovendale and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on excerpts from original sources, this book provides an introduction to the controversies and dilemmas that have confronted those making and implementing British defence policy since the end of World War II. Ovendale explores the policy dilemmas caused by Britain's parallel commitments to continental Europe and to a global foreign policy, the legacy of her imperial past. He also examines the decision in 1957 to rely on the nuclear deterrent, abolish conscription and move away from a maritime strategy; and the role of the Treasury in dictating the limits of British defence policy.
Download or read book British Defence Policy written by John Baylis and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of British defence policy argues that a "one-off" defence review is not enough but a regular process of defece reviews every five years provide a long-term strategic direction which, the author maintains, is lacking at present.
Download or read book The challenge of defending Britain written by Michael Clarke and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise explanation of all the elements that make up current British defence policy as it goes through a major transition to confront the technological and political challenges Britain faces in the coming decade.
Download or read book Politicians and Defence written by Ian Frederick William Beckett and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Defence Policy written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Development of British Defence Policy written by David Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain's military forces have rarely been busier. It is therefore crucial to understand the developing trends and underlying assumptions of British Defence Policy, in regard to both foreign policy and international security. This volume, which covers both the Blair and Brown eras in defence policy making, places developments post 11 September in a wider context, assessing the impact of key personalities and events on a range of issues, notably the perennial concern of military overstretch. By critically appraising contemporary developments, and examining the driving policy in specific cases, this volume provides a relevant and up-to-date assessment of this vital policy area. As well as being contemporary in its analysis, the work is also comprehensive in scope, embracing both policy objectives - such as the expeditionary strategy and the desire to be a bridge between the US and EU - and the instruments that underpin such policy.
Download or read book Europeanization of British Defence Policy written by Robert Dover and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phenomenon of Europeanization has become a topic that is constantly under debate. This critical volume examines Europeanization through examples of British defence policy, the European Security and Defence Policy, the legal arms trade and the decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003. Drawing on examples from Austria and France, as well as unveiling the role of the Prime Minister and his close confidants in driving through this controversial defence policy, Robert Dover provides an original and engaging contemporaneous account of Europeanization. Academics, post-graduate researchers and analysts concerned with British foreign and defence policy and those interested in European defence policy more generally, will all find this study a must read.
Download or read book The Making of British Defence Policy written by William Hopkinson and published by Stationery Office Books (TSO). This book was released on 2000 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the nature and size of Britain's armed services, the UK's general strategy, and the handling of the major issues of alliances in the period from the start of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1987 to the Strategic Defence Review of 1998. For the most part this book is concerned with the process of policy making rather than the policy itself and the influence of decision making structures on the role of the military. As the world has changed decisions based on the Soviet threat are no longer optimal. There have had to be organizational changes to increase the pace of decision taking within the MoD and integrate the services more closely.
Download or read book The Continental Commitment written by Michael Howard and published by London : Maurice Temple Smith Limited. This book was released on 1972 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British defnce Policy inm a changing world written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Economics of Defence Policy written by Keith Hartley and published by Brassey's. This book was released on 1991 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subjects the myths, emotion, and special pleading which dominate the national and NATO defense debates to the scrutiny of economic analysis, critical appraisal, and empirical testing, and shows the range of choices facing any government, with examples taken from the UK and elsewhere. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book British Defence Since 1945 written by Michael L. Dockrill and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alternative Defence Policy written by Gordon Burt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1988, represents a unique attempt to combine a discussion of an alternative British defence policy in terms of military strategy and new technology, with a consideration of how this policy might be secure in political terms. Written against a background of a possible future Labour government in the late 1980s with a radically different defence policy to the Conservative Government of the day, it considers questions such as: Would conventional deterrence really be effective? Just what is the Labour Party's defence policy? How precisely might Britain be transformed into a non-aligned, non-militarist state?
Download or read book Defence Policy Making written by Arthur Tange and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Arthur Tange was perhaps the most powerful Secretary of the Australian Defence Department and one of the most powerful of the great 'mandarins' who dominated the Commonwealth Public Service between the 1940s and the 1970s. His strong, and often decisive, influence on both administration and policy was exerted by virtue of his intellectual capacity, his administrative ability and the sheer force of his personality. Controversies from his time in Defence, including those associated with 'the Tange report' and 'the Tange reforms', echo to this day, and it is still easy to identify both staunch admirers and vitriolic critics in defence and public service circles. Tange wrote this account in his last years. It is a memoir - based largely on memory supplemented by limited reference to documentary material - that focuses upon his career after he came to Defence in 1970. It records his own account of his part in those administrative reforms and policy shifts, as well as his involvement-or non-involvement or alleged involvement-in several of the political crises of the 1970s, including the downfall of John Gorton as Prime Minister and the dismissal of the Whitlam Government.
Download or read book British Defence Policy written by Laurence W. Martin and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British External Policy making in the 1990s written by Michael Clarke and published by Palgrave. This book was released on 1992 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the formulation of British external policy which examines the economic, social, legal, demographic and institutional changes inside contemporary Britain and sets them within the independent context of modern Europe.
