Defence Secretary’s stance on Strategic Defence Review abandons logic
Defence Secretary Dr Liam Fox, in an interview today (13th June 210) has said of the Strategic Defence Review – rightly: ‘If you’re going to have a review, you have a review. You don’t rule ‘X’, ‘Y’ or...
View ArticleCouncillor Robb takes Trident to skewer Alan Reid
Alan Reid, Argyll’s MP, lives for part of his time at Cardross, outside Helensburgh in south Argyll.He has now been challenged hard by local Councillor James Robb, on the subject most likely to provoke...
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Was there ‘a review’? Was it ‘strategic’? What ‘defence’ was at issue?
One national newspaper yesterday quoted a description given by a senior witness to the inner negotiations around the Defence budget. He described the situation as ‘… like a knife fight in a steamed-up...
View ArticleNational Security Strategy – less substance than it suggests
We’re not going to add to speculation on what will be announced today by the Prime Minister on the outcome of the Strategic Defence Review. We’ll report the facts when they are made known this...
View ArticleNewsflash – Strategic Defence Review: Lossiemouth may be OK, Kinloss in trouble
Detail to come shortly in a full article but this is the headline news for Moray.Tornados will be retained. Nimrod cancelled today.Update 18.00 19th October 2010: Full article on the detail of the...
View ArticleStrategic Defence Review: reductions and new directions
First, the leaking on this – which has been as close to official as a leak can be, has been procedurally disgraceful. We must now dispense with this pantomime of leaks and pre-announcements of what a...
View ArticleDefence personnel numbers in Scotland down by 35% since 2000
UK Defence Statistics, published today [ in Table 2.2] by the Ministry of Defence, show that the numbers of defence personnel based in Scotland have declined by 35% since 2000,The official statistics...
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Major Duncan MacMillan
Almost a year ago, For Argyll published the story of the unveiling of a painting commissioned from artist, Stuart Brown by the Kilt Fund of the 8th Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders....
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