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A root and branch review of UK Defence.
The terms of reference of the 2024-2025 Strategic Defence Review.
A review has been commissioned by the Prime Minister and will be overseen by the Defence Secretary, and headed by Lord Robertson.
The SDR will determine the roles, capabilities and reforms required by UK Defence to meet the challenges, threats and opportunities of the twenty-first century, deliverable and affordable within the resources available to Defence within the trajectory to 2.5%. The Review...
Six leading figures with extensive experience across defence, security, and wider government will support the Strategic Defence Review (SDR) external reviewers.
The Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy will define the government’s vision for the UK’s role in the world over the next decade.
The government has launched a review into the UK’s defence and security industry sectors.
Global Britain in a Competitive Age, the Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy, describes the government’s vision for the UK’s role in the world over the next decade and the action we will take to 2025.
Facts about defence in relation to SDSR 2015 including information on investment in new equipment, Joint Force 2025 and expenditure.
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