“You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.”- Anthony Eden Defence is an insurance policy against an uncertain future. No sane citizen would ever want their nation to go to war, but history suggests that the
“Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.” – Sybil Sage (New York Times) The relentless march of technology and the rapid advances in computer processing power
“We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy but because they are hard.” – President John F. Kennedy, 12 September 1962 Space – the final frontier; for a generation of avid viewers the original series of Star
“We need to recognize the irrationality and inhumanity of living in a world overshadowed by nuclear weapons” – Daisaku Ikeda Whilst the very concept of nuclear weapons is abhorrent to many, they have been the foundation of the UK’s national defence strategy for decades. Nuclear weapons have not been used
Vision without Funding is Hallucination. Most ambitions are limited by resources; difficult choices and compromises need to me made. By way of example, the UK has an outstanding Fire Brigade, but since most of the UK population will never directly require their services, the level of funding required is subject
I joined the Royal Air Force in the final decade of the Cold War. At that time, we lived under the omnipresent threat of war, with the UK Armed Forces postured in Germany to repel the Soviet hordes. However, NATO prevailed, the dark clouds of imminent conflict dissipated, and the
