Category Archives: Lt. Col . Stuart Crawford

              By Lt Col Stuart Crawford What does all this defence spending wrangling actually mean to the ordinary man or woman in the street? Most people are understandably more concerned about paying the bills, running a business, getting an NHS appointment or keeping food on the table than they are about defence procurement. YetContinue reading “The first duty of government is defence. So why is it stuck in the treasury in-tray?”

              A month into the US/Iran ceasefire in the Middle East, and it’s beginning to look as if it’s on its last legs. Donald Trump has said that the temporary cessation of hostilities is “on massive life support”, adding that the present arrangement was “unbelievably weak”. The outlook was much more optimistic when theContinue reading “Conflict Trump cannot contain”

              The uneasy ceasefire between Iran and the US/Israeli/Gulf States ‘combined force’ looks unlikely to last for very much longer. The focus of the renewed tension is, of course, the standoff over the Strait of Hormuz, or more accurately the right of international shipping to pass through it. Iran, in the form of theContinue reading “Iran conflict spirals dangerously”

              Scott Galloway, the London-based multimillionaire author and podcaster, has said in the Daily Telegraph that ‘Britain must implement mandatory national service to save its lost young men’. In a wide-ranging interview, he suggests that one of the reasons Israel has one of the lowest levels of young adult depression in the world mayContinue reading “Why national service won’t work”

              Scottish Labour politician Graeme Downie MP has set a hare running in the continuing debate on how the UK can raise its defence budget to a realistic level. In an article published last week in ‘The House’ – “a weekly, non-partisan political publication considered the official magazine of the UK Parliament” – DownieContinue reading “Hormuz defence talks led by UK-France”