Danny Kruger, Reform’s head of preparations for government, has put his name to a new Prosperity Institute paper calling for the Army to be cut down to one fully-resourced division in order to prioritise the Royal Navy and RAF. Trade-offs…
The new report from the Prosperity Institute argues that successive governments have spread the forces so thin they can no longer do any one job properly. It calls for a ‘maritime-first’ strategy to 2035…
The report argues that the Navy should be built around hunting Russian submarines and guarding undersea cables and pipelines. Home waters, then the North Atlantic, the gap between Greenland, Iceland, and Britain, the High North and the Baltic. Additional proposals include:
Kruger endorsed the paper:
“Dominating the waters around our islands is a must for any government serious about national security. This paper helps to outline some of the trade-offs that will involve, and calls on Britain to make the investments necessary for our defence.”
The paper is also backed by former Chief of the Defence Staff Field Marshal Lord Richards, Penny Mordaunt, former Chief of Joint Operations Lt Gen Sir Charles Stickland, and former Defence Attaché to Kyiv Rear Admiral Tim Woods. Bring back gunboat diplomacy…
Robert Jenrick on the Today programme:
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