A complete overhaul of the strategic planning for Britain’s defence forces is needed, according to Britain’s oldest conservative think tank. In a new report, the Bow Group has called on the Government to implement a much more wide-ranging long term strategic review of defence spending, in light of the rapid shift in global affairs currently taking place. The British government is currently undertaking a Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) to set spending priorities for the next Parliament until 2020. But Henry Malins, the author of the Bow Group’s report, has warned that it must not be allowed to become simply a “glossy PR document” with limited strategic worth. He welcomed Chancellor George Osborne’s recent pledge to commit Britain to NATO spending targets of 2 percent GDP on defence, but argued that the time was ripe for a full scale strategic review of that spending, not least as newly included
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