It staggers me that it has taken until now for the Government to announce a new Strategic Defence Review – a decade after the last, and with two major land wars since then. Our Shadow Defence Secretary Liam Fox has been calling for such a review since he took on the role – and he’s written an excellent piece in today’s Telegraph which I direct you to:
It is vital to safeguard our national security by defeating the Taliban in Afghanistan. The cost in human lives is high, but the cost of doing nothing would be far greater.
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