☢ #NuclearPoliticsParadox No.18
#KeirStarmer’s speeches around the UK's #StrategicDefenceReview contain narratives that make nuclear strengthening seem prudent and logical.
🚨 Zeenat Sabur argues that these narratives alert us to the insecurity to which #Nuclear posturing leads us.
👉 bit.ly/4lWHsO5
📝 The #StrategicDefenceReview: Innovation Without the People?
With AFCAS figures showing that only 42% of Service personnel “are satisfied with their Service life in general," things have to change. My #SDR analysis in #DefenceinDepth:
www.kcl.ac.uk/the-strategi...
@warstudieskcl.bsky.social
Can defence innovation succeed without putting people first?
In this #DefenceinDepth article @tarazammit.bsky.social questions whether the UK’s newly released #StrategicDefenceReview side-lines personnel and culture in favour of tech-driven priorities.
Read it here: www.kcl.ac.uk/the-strategi...
The UK's SDR indicates a major change in defense stance, focusing on preparing for potential global conflict. #StrategicDefenceReview https://fefd.link/u3HW8
The UK’s #StrategicDefenceReview brings a welcome focus to boosting societal #resilience in the face of global threats
Success will rely on policy and resources beyond the traditional realms of #defence and #security @robinpotter.bsky.social @chathamhouse.org on @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social
Last week’s Strategic Defence Review 2025 positions space as a pivotal domain in the UK's defence posture.
For those shaping the future of defence, this is where your space story begins: www.spaceconference.co.uk
#UKSC2025 #StrategicDefenceReview #SpaceDefence #SpaceSecurity
New article on Substack.
The recent #StrategicDefenceReview seems indicative of the UK's political problems. #UKpoliticians are so obsessed with regaining their #imperial influence that they neglect actual security needs and economic problems.
open.substack.com/pub/miloonei...
@alpinkerton.bsky.social @klausdodds.bsky.social @reecejones.bsky.social - might be of interest re: #geopolitics #youth #strategicdefencereview
How able is 🇬🇧 to address the ‘sophisticated and persistent’ 🇨🇳 challenge as outlined in the #StrategicDefenceReview?
We asked 4 experts for their take in today's #Tangram
✍️ @salisbot.bsky.social, Andrew Yeh, Owen Au, Robert Clark
#ObservingChina
Does the #StrategicDefenceReview provide the right defence posture for 🇬🇧?
We asked a group of experts in today's #BigAsk
✍️ Robert Clark, Dr Anisa Heritage, Harry Halem, @james-rogers.bsky.social, @salisbot.bsky.social, Prof. James Woudhuysen
#BritainsWorld #SDR
Read the latest #SDR analysis by @salisbot.bsky.social 👇
⚓️‘It is heartening to see that HM Government recognises that #maritime security is a top priority.’
#Broadside #StrategicDefenceReview
cover of the Alternative Defence Review
The #StrategicDefenceReview plans to pour billions more into deadly nuclear weapons production - increasing nuclear threats, thrashing international obligations, and making the population poorer. We need to end this war drive! Full statement from CND:
cnduk.org/ADR/
@willfreer.bsky.social, our Research Fellow, responds to the #StrategicDefenceReview from a national security perspective 👇
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#SDR
Dr John Hemmings, our Deputy Director, gives his take on the implications of the #StrategicDefenceReview on 🇬🇧 approach to the #IndoPacific👇
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#SDR
Matt @MattCartoonist on #StrategicDefenceReview #StopTheBoats @telegraph – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
🎙️ Listen to @salisbot.bsky.social, our Research Fellow, on @thespectator1828.bsky.social podcast with @jaheale.bsky.social and Oscar Edmondson discussing the newly published #SDR
#StrategicDefenceReview
🚨 New #DefenceTalks episode coming soon 🚨
🎙️ The #StrategicDefenceReview: Implications and implementation
🗣️ Kevin Craven, CEO, ADS Group, and Air Marshal (rtd.) Edward Stringer, Director, iJ7, join @paulmason.bsky.social and @starychsam.bsky.social
👉 www.britainsworld.org.uk/s/defence-ta...
Perhaps worth noting that although we have become accustomed to intelligence being placed front and centre in defence reviews, I believe this is the first time that counter-intelligence has featured prominently #StrategicDefenceReview
Despite the #UK's #StrategicDefenceReview realising and highlighting the UKs reliance upon a sole #Nuclear #delivery #platform
The UK will likely buy #F35A rather than accelerate #Tempest or indeed buy more #Eurofighters
Once again, crippling independent action by buying #American
#StupidDecision
🚨 #StrategicDefenceReview key takeaways 🚨
1️⃣ The Nuclear Enterprise - 12 #AUKUS submarines and £15bn
2️⃣ Munitions production - £6bn and 6 new factories
3️⃣ New tech - Doubled investment in autonomous systems, new CyberEM command and Drone Centre
🔗 www.geostrategy.org.uk/our-publicat...
#SDR
@starychsam.bsky.social and @james-rogers.bsky.social, our Co-founders, give their perspective on the newly published #StrategicDefenceReview 👇
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#SDR
Statement extracted from the UK Strategic Defence Review: Box 14: Multi-domain integration in action: Integrated Air and Missile Defence (IAMD) Capable and effective IAMD for the UK can only be accomplished as part of a NATO endeavour. As lead UK Command for IAMD, the RAF is responsible for delivering the timely, resilient, and integrated command and control (C2) that is critical to success. The tools to achieve effective C2 include: GUARDIAN, the Air Battle Management system fully integrated into the NATO IAMD C2 network; and NEXUS, a cloud‑based C2 decision-making solution employing Artificial Intelligence. The RAF combat air force provides the core of UK IAMD ‘effect’ capability, with Typhoon and F-35 providing the UK and NATO with air defence against air and cruise missile attack. These platforms are also a key part of the IAMD offensive counter-air and deep precision strike capability that underpins conventional deterrence, projecting force at range from the UK to nullify threats before they are launched. The air component also contributes to UK IAMD through Protector and P8-A Poseidon aircraft which, alongside the Royal Navy’s Type 45 destroyer, deliver near-continuous maritime surveillance and strike capabilities from the sea.
Well, my first impression of the #StrategicDefenceReview is that’s it is highly speculative and full of aspiration whilst being low on detail.
I’m also wondering why it took so long for them to produce something so lightweight?
This statement for example is woeful imho as a former air defender.
The #strategicdefencereview emphasises the importance of tech and tilts back to @NATO. I asked the Secretary of State if we will have a sovereign AI capability and raised the work of the @RGR1815 Brunei based on the South China Sea.
Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social on #KeirStarmer and his #strategicdefencereview @TheTimes – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
From 8-9pm @lbc.co.uk tonight no doubt talking #StrategicDefenceReview. Hope to talk about lack of _security_ strategy
Andy Bunday @bundaycartoons on #JohnHealey #strategicdefencereview – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
Ben Jennings @BJennings90 on #KeirStarmer and his #strategicdefencereview @guardian – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
1/2 What does today's #StrategicDefenceReview mean for civilians? Increased military capability can bring increased risks. It’s vital that #CivilianRights, protection and accountability are at the heart of defence policy, ensuring that the UK upholds its responsibilities under international law.
