After weeks of speculation, months of uncertainty and years of anticipation, the long-awaited Strategic Defence and Security Review has, at last, been published - but perhaps only now can the real debate begin. The Coalition Government came clean on 19th October with its agenda for the future of British defence policy, but how does that translate into definitive decisions about the size and shape of our armed forces, the numbers of personnel to be retained in uniform or made redundant or, more pertinently for British industry, the equipment programmes to be taken forward or cancelled? Behind the headlines of the announcements, the real detail has still to be revealed.
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