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Parliamentary Report Calls For More Strategy, Less Budget Influence On New SDSR

Defense Daily Staff

Tuesday, January 7th, 2014

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The House of Commons Defense Committee (HCDC) Jan. 7 published its first report looking toward the next Defense and Security Review (DSR). The capabilities of HM Forces--British Forces--should be determined not by budgetary constraints but by a fully-developed strategy that defines the position in the world that the United Kingdom wants to adopt, according to HCDC in the first in a series of reports intended to shape the next Defense and Security Review. Committee chairman James Arbuthnot said: “As far…

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