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More than 150 years ago, a lone British regiment, the 93rd Regiment (Sutherland Highlanders), was all that stood between the unprepared British camp in the Crimea and charging Russian cavalry. Formed by their commander into two lines, the British infantry faced down many times their number, saving
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Date:
8/14/2012
For more than a decade, the British Ministry of Defence (MOD) has pioneered in the area of reducing defense costs by increasing its reliance on the private sector. In 2001, rather than trying to sustain an oversized and expensive public sector defense research enterprise, Tony Blair's Labor government
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Date:
6/8/2012
Yesterday, the British government announced a series of major defense cuts. They were every bit as severe as early reports had suggested. Among the major decisions are reductions in the number of Army brigades, withdrawal of all British forces (20,000 people) from Germany, mothballing much of
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Date:
10/20/2010
All leaks emerging out of the new British government's defense review indicate a budgetary bloodbath is in the offing. Reports indicate that the review was seeking cuts as deep as 15 percent in the UK’s defense budget. Later reports suggested reductions in the range of 10 percent. In addition,
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Date:
10/15/2010
The British Government is about to complete its Defense Review 2010. Scheduled under the former Labor government, the review is taking place under the guiding hand of the new Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government and in the midst of the most severe economic crisis in Britain’s post-war
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Date:
9/9/2010