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July 8 in blog,The Forces by Paul Maynard MP

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:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/5771269/Liam-Fox-Theres-a-war-on—someone-tell-Labour.html

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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