Defence

Defence: better spent elsewhere?

May 31, 2026 1:56 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

To absolutely no-one’s surprise, the Sunday Telegraph is reporting that the “Typhoon fighter replacement faces years of delay”, telling us... View Article

Defence: totally out of its league

May 23, 2026 3:15 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

The Telegraph is running a puff piece for the British Army with the headline reading: “Britain only has enough drones... View Article

Defence: the cost of war

April 24, 2026 2:36 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Standing back from the cut and thrust of the Iran conflict (and many other issues), I was struck by the... View Article

Defence: asymmetric economic warfare

April 3, 2026 3:29 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Cost-to-value discrepancies in warfare have been a thing ever since the Vietnam War when it was estimated that to kill... View Article

Defence: an unaffordable fracture

April 2, 2026 3:58 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Even if president Trump was serious about leaving Nato, there is some doubt about whether he has the powers to... View Article

Defence: the MoD money pit

April 1, 2026 2:03 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

True to Starmer’s word that his government would “stand by our allies in the Gulf region”, defence secretary John Healey... View Article

Defence: a degenerate system

March 30, 2026 3:23 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Something I missed on Friday brings me back to the subject of defence far earlier than I expected, although this... View Article

Defence: grasping the nettle

March 28, 2026 3:57 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

On the subject of the UK’s intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM) defences, I thought it would be wrong to leave... View Article

Politics: the lies direct

March 27, 2026 3:35 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

The question of how badly the British public have been misled over the status of the UK’s intermediate range ballistic... View Article

Defence: prevarication

March 26, 2026 3:51 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

So pleased with himself that he asked the prime minister a question about our defences from Iranian ballistic missiles that... View Article

Defence: lack of critical analysis

March 25, 2026 3:51 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

It would be useful occasionally if people could focus on some core issues, instead of dissipating energies on peripheral issues... View Article

Defence: failures all round

March 24, 2026 3:48 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

The Times is having fun at expense of the odious Starmer (even if it is like shooting fish in a... View Article

Defence: a dilemma for Starmer

March 22, 2026 4:31 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

The news that Iran has fired off a two-stage ballistic missile with a nominal range of 4,000 km, thus demonstrating... View Article

Defence: impotency on the battlefield

March 19, 2026 3:19 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

When one looks at all the senior Army officers, the government ministers and the civil servants involved in the troubled... View Article

Defence: no sign of change

February 15, 2026 3:27 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

I have read and re-read Starmer’s speech, delivered to the Munich Security Conference yesterday, not least because I assumed that... View Article

Defence: to fight or not to fight

December 19, 2025 3:04 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

While most of the legacy media has remained silent on “call to arms”, where we are supposed to sacrifice our... View Article