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4 days ago · The political debate on the defence budget has focused on the percentage of GDP that is being spent. Labour is committed to spending 2.5% of GDP on defence, albeit without a timescale or a funding plan. But what the Ministry of Defence (MoD) really needs is a guarantee of steady and substantial real-terms growth each year for a decade or more.
5 days ago · In this story. With election day upon us, three experts from the School of Security Studies at King’s College London outline the main defence challenges facing the incoming government and how the UK's approach to defence might change under new leadership.
4 days ago · Explore impartial research and analysis from the House of Commons Library on issues related to Defence.
6 days ago · In 1974 Obasanjo went to the UK for a course at the Royal College of Defence Studies. On returning, in January 1975 Gowon appointed him as the Commissioner for Works and Housing, a position he held for seven months, during which he was largely responsible for building military barracks.
- Yakubu Gowon
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- Dan Etete
- Edmund Daukoru
2 days ago · The UK can help with all of these areas—provided buildout of the Royal Navy can keep pace with an increasingly complex trade portfolio. After the U.S. Navy, the Royal Navy is perhaps the most sophisticated navy in the world. The HMS Queen Elizabeth and her sister ship HMS Prince of Wales are twin 65,000 ton super-carriers.
3 days ago · Historians within the Department, as well as those in the Departments of War Studies and Defence Studies, generate new insights and approaches in a number of significant areas: notably broad and inclusive British and Irish histories, a chronologically deep history of Europe and European empires, global histories encompassing the pre-modern era ...
14 hours ago · The Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC) Unit provides occupational mental health assessment, advice and treatment through a network of departments of community mental health (DCMHs), mental health teams and additional staff at deployed locations. During 2023/24, we inspected one regional Network: The Defence Mental Health Network South East Region.
