Titlebook: British Defence Policy; Striking the Right B John Baylis Book 1989 John Baylis 1989 Defence.defence policy.Europe.statistics.strategy.weapo

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The Technological Challenge,a and air warfare occurred in the first forty years of the twentieth century but these were much less significant than the quantum leaps in military science which have taken place in the period since 1945. As John Garnett has written, ‘the sheer pace of technological innovation in weapon technology…

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The Political Challenge,pters 6 and 7 have tried to demonstrate they are also likely to pose important challenges for the future. Defence policy, however, is not simply the product of economic and technological pressures. Such pressures help to define the limits of policy choice but ultimately that choice (relating to the

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Incrementalism Versus a Radical Review,aintain a balanced force structure. Although Britain has long since ceased to regard herself as a Great Power on a par with the United States and the Soviet Union, the provision of a wide range of military capabilities has been considered necessary to sustain the nation’s self-image as a major mediu

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Striking the Right Balance for the Future, much longer, as it has been doing in recent years, ‘muddling through’ on a day-to-day basis without serious damage to the nation’s defence effort. A significant increase in defence expenditure would help to ease the immediate problems created by a ‘funding gap’, but as we have argued earlier, this

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The Economic Challenge,aced by Britain for much of the period since 1945 have posed a major challenge for defence planners and are unlikely to become significantly easier in the years ahead. To understand the nature of this challenge we need to consider the relationship between defence policy and the economy which has developed since the Second World War.

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