UK military problems & policies

[davidbfpo]

The long awaited UK Strategic Defence & Security Review was published yesterday, getting mixed reviews and some plaudits. From my "armchair" there are the curious: two new 'strike' brigades to be formed by 2025 and largely with the same helicopters we have today.

Reviews:

1. Rather long and detailed:http://www.thinkdefence.co.uk/2015/1...-does-it-mean/
2. The BBC's Mark Urban:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34901846
3. RUSI's initial short assessment:https://rusi.org/SDSR2015
4. In The Guardian a RUSI SME adds:http://www.theguardian.com/commentis...review-britain
5. The UK Staff College (Kings War Studies outpost) has three responses:http://defenceindepth.co/

Will our allies, principally the USA 'first & foremost' be convinced the UK is a capable and willing ally?

Yes there is a long running thread on UK Defence into which this maybe merged one day, but as many readers are Americans and we so like the 'Special Relationship' I expecta few here will be interested!