SDSR: More questions than answers?

摘要

The British Prime Minister's statement to the House of Commons on Monday 23 November, unveiling a more strategic, threat-based approach to determining military capability, which can more easily and successfully counter shifting situations and more diverse challenges and hazards, is welcome. Recent events in the Middle East also place the Government's investment pledges for air power in sharp focus, not because the air power capabilities being promised have an immediate relation to the expansion of the UK's anti-ISIL air campaign into Syria, but because the Government is right to spend money on the development over time of a more flexible, agile and technologically-advanced air force, capable of evolving and adapting to unforeseen and changing circumstances that arise between five-year reviews.