A Question of Security

ISBN: 9781848856059 出版年：2011 页码：362 Royal United Services Institute For Defence And Security Studies Bloomsbury Publishing

Britain now faces fundamental choices in organising its armed forces and military strategy - more time since the 1930s. This vital new book prepares the ground for a major government review of UK defence and security policy, analysing every important facet the review will face: from the spending constraints created by the financial crisis, to the decisions the country has to take on matters of war, peace and terrorism. The analysis covers the military equipment Britain should procure; the industrial implications of defence procurement decisions; the relationshand partners; the intelligence sources; and, not least, the moral and ethical dimensions of modern security policy in a globalised but disordered world. Written by the foremost independent security and defence experts in the field, thresult of RUSI's Future Defence Review research initiative. 'A Question of Security' sets tfor all wishing to understand the defence and security problems Britain now faces, and also for those in government and parliament who have to answer these difficult questions at a generational moment for UK defence policy.