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What happens to NATO if Trump walks away?
A high-level wargame offers a depressing answer...
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Paul Mason
Land: the MOD's "burning platform"
Lessons of May 1940 show that, to have a say in NATO doctrine, UK needs to need to invest in land warfare today
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You only need tanks if you want to win
Cross party Defence Pledge calls for 2.5% spending - but it's not enough
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March 2024

UK defence spending debate gets real...
With 3%/GDP now in play inside the Tory party, where should the UK focus its requirements?
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Paul Mason
You may not care about information war - but information war cares about you...
What can we learn about war's potential effects on civilians from recent NTC exercises?
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Paul Mason
Breaking ranks or firing blanks? Tory calls for Defence spending hike unheeded
Why is UK strategic thinking paralysed by peacetime fiscal rules? Here's three alternative scenarios...
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Paul Mason
Bad News From Rochdale
Galloway can be beaten. Here's why and how...
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Paul Mason

February 2024

Labour plans big shake-up at the MOD
Levene reforms will be reversed to allow centralised control over procurement and more strategic command of the armed forces
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It's not woke for an army to look like the society it defends
Shapps' attack on diversity shows zero understanding of the recruitment challenge
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Ready to fight? Not right now...
The UK's defence incoherence will soon be Labour's problem
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January 2024

Words have consequences
ICJ rules the risk of genocide in Gaza is "plausible"
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At Labour's centenary... What is Radical Social Democracy?
Lenin wouldn't like it. Nor would Ramsay MacDonald
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Paul Mason
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