Stuart Dee @Smdee29
Defence Economics & Acquisition researcher/analyst @RandEurope. History, Running & Cycling. 🇬🇧🇪🇺 Views personal. Hampshire, UK Joined February 2024-
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After the government reveals British police will help patrol Paris for the Olympics, Policing Minister Chris Philp starts sending officers to France to guard its most famous landmarks
It’s always my fault, isn’t it.
To get the £75 billion number, the government has assumed a baseline with spending frozen in cash terms and then added up all of the differences. If you instead assume a baseline of spending frozen as a % GDP, it's an extra £20 billion over 6 years. Details here.
#London looking it’s majestic best in the #Spring2024 sunshine today. Why don’t train stations look like this anymore? #StPancras 🇬🇧🚝
Worse ways to start the day than a walk for an early train sometimes! 🚝
On this day in 1986, a peace treaty was signed, officially ending the Three Hundred and Thirty-Five Years' War between the Isles of Scilly and the Netherlands. During this war not a single shot was fired, which makes it one of the world's longest wars, and a bloodless war.
How a smaller air force “spread very thinly across multiple small fleets with almost no capacity to absorb combat losses” might optimise their airpower contribution to NATO: rusi.org/explore-our-re…
The UK's new #DragonFire laser weapon will be installed on #RoyalNavy warships for the first time from 2027, it has been announced. Our recent blogs by James Black and Stuart Dee discuss the impact of this new #militarytech: rand.org/pubs/commentar… #DirectedEnergyWeapons #Defence
Fascinating (having spent earlier career in automotive and aerospace) reading Freedom’s Forge by @ArthurLHerman. Excellently written and insightful. Highly recommend to understand more on the industrial dimensions of economic statecraft. (Recommendation c/o: @VAdmNickHine)
"9th February 1934, We have the honour to request the adaption of the type name "SPITFIRE".
Exciting peek into rehearsals for historic event at @Elysee! @ColdstreamGds & French troops prepping for the first foreign guard change at French presidential residence. Impressive adaptation to French commands and flawless parade execution. Monday's event promises grandeur! 🇬🇧🇫🇷
Working for peace, security and freedom for 75 years #1NATO75years
🇬🇧🇮🇹🇯🇵 How can GCAP make a 'LEAP'? In this new paper for FASI, @alessionaval and Peter Watkins examine how the fighter programme would benefit from better mutual understanding in strategy, organisation and politics. Read here👇 ow.ly/HQ1h50R5Whp
Spring sunshine over Apsley House, London’s best street address (No.1, London) overlooking Wellington Arch. London residence of the Duke of Wellington and hidden gem on Hyde Park corner.@ApsleyHouse @EnglishHeritage #London #HydePark
A pleasure and privilege as always to visit @TheRAFClub today.
The absolute joy of the first evening spin after the clocks change… #cycling #roadcycling #Spring2024 🚴🏻♂️🕶️
Bank holiday bliss, and a close up glimpse of the UK’s hidden-in-plain-sight Victorian underpinnings. 🇬🇧🚴🏻♂️🚂
You can only read so many books in a lifetime. Read as many Roman History ones as possible.
The drawing process from beginning to end
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Iford Manor, near Bath. Bit of a charmer.
Ben is 100% right. Numbers used in describing increase in defence spending are impenetrable, misleading & internally inconsistent. Committing to 2.5% of GDP on defence is big and important. There is no need for this profusion of overblown and inconsistent numerical claims.
It's only a "£75 billion increase" over 6 years if you assume that spending would otherwise have been frozen in cash terms for 6 years - i.e. only if the government was, until today, planning to breach its NATO commitments. This is such an unhelpful way to present the figures.
There has been some confusion about what the Government is now committed to spend on defence in 2024/25. The Budget tables show total planned MoD spending at £51.7bn next year, down from planned spending of £54.2bn in 2023/24. So defence spending is falling, right?
@shashj The obvious baseline to use would have been the HMT one which is used for the Equipment Plan. This is 0.5% per annum in real terms. On this basis, the 6 year increase is around £60bn, of which some £12bn is Ukraine. Still pretty substantial.
The British Government has announced a £75bn increase in Defence spending. PSL analysis live on how much of this is new money, where it may be spent and the very elegant 'political booby trap' at the heart of these spending plans. thinpinstripedline.blogspot.com/2024/04/analys…
@AccidentalP Though it’s obviously a joke at my expense, I’ll happily take the Accidental Partridge as a badge of honour as I think Coogan is brilliant.
Farewell to the best coffee shop in Westminster
Anglesey keeps calling us back. From a cyclists point of view the weather is rarely favourable, particularly the wind but if mile upon mile of deserted country lanes with grass up the middle and views of snowdon in the distance is your thing, you should take a look.
That's....not Sky Sabre. Penny Mordaunt calls for a British Iron Dome defence system telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/…
My take on the UK’s real air defence challenge and why calls this week for the UK to purchase Iron Dome are very wide of the mark. h/t @gregbagwell and @Justin_Br0nk on a couple of points.
‘Tobias Ellwood says Britain needs its own Iron Dome. He is wrong. This is the last thing we should do.’ ✍️ John Foreman spectator.co.uk/article/britai…
Reminder: FCAS is to be optionally crewed *in 2040*. 😇 edwards.af.mil/News/Article-V…
Good morning. Bit of John Nash for you. Grade 1 listed former United Service Club.
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