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Ben Wallace urges firm timetable for increasing military spending to 2.5% of GDP
Russian aggression and Chinese threat pose dilemma for cash-strapped, midsized military power seeking to retain global role
Governments are right to increase defence spending, but their electorates prefer butter to guns
Defence secretary says progress made on long-delayed £5.5bn armoured vehicle procurement
Budget allocation comes on top of £5bn for next two years promised by Rishi Sunak
Integrated review highlights end of ‘peace dividend’, as extra cash for defence will have to come from other public services
Government’s updated integrated review of foreign and defence policy lists Russia as the most immediate challenge
Extra £5bn boost to military spending included in update to UK defence and foreign policy
British army’s capacity to deploy effective force to mainland Europe questioned in parliamentary report
Defence secretary says long-delayed £5.5bn programme has ‘turned a corner’ and deliveries could start in 18 months
Ben Wallace to argue for extra funding ‘because the world is much more dangerous and unstable’
Tory chair of defence committee says cost of replacing kit sent to Ukraine and high inflation had created ‘a really grim picture’
British leaders have been feted in Kyiv for their role in galvanising allies to provide weapons
General Dynamics says it is owed $1.7bn for long-delayed Ajax contract
Military has to replenish weapons stockpile and procure new equipment
Trilateral military project aimed at an increasingly assertive China and other threats
Europe’s largest defence contractor in talks to ramp up production of key artillery used in Ukraine
PM refuses to be drawn on matching Truss’s promise of big boost to military spending
Invasion of Ukraine drives rethink just 18 months after conclusion of last process
Liz Truss will make commitment in her first speech to the UN General Assembly as prime minister
They risk a general election like 1979, when voters look at who has been in charge and ask why nothing works
MPs warn armed forces face capability gap and Ukraine shows mistake in cutting heavy armour
Retrofit programme will give key UK combat aircraft new ‘electronic attack’ capabilities and extend its service life into the 2040s
Every day, Putin is depleting his army against a non-Nato country, burning his assets like a narcissist-run start-up
Ben Wallace wants ‘peace dividend’ invested as head of army condemns ‘brutal aggression’ in Ukraine
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