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posted on 2012-06-14, 15:34 authored by Rob Dover, Mark PhythianImmediately after the formation of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat
coalition government following the May 2010 general election, the conduct
of a Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR), in line with
election manifesto pledges, was announced. This SDSR was published
just prior to the Comprehensive Spending Review in October 2010. It
was intended to be a fundamental review of Britain’s defence and security
posture, based on the strategic need established by the 2010
National Security Strategy, rather than another example of the budgetary
salami slicing seen in the 1990s and in the revisions to the 1998
Strategic Defence Review (SDR) during the 2000s. The message was
clear: the SDSR was distinctive precisely because it was the operational
embodiment of the NSS’s strategic assessment. However, by the turn of
2011, the SDSR was already being seen as fundamentally flawed by parliamentarians,
defence professionals and expert commentators alike (continues ...)
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DOVER, R. and PHYTHIAN, M., 2011. Lost over Libya: the 2010 strategic defence and security review – an obituary. Defence Studies, 11 (3), pp. 420 - 444.Publisher
© Taylor & FrancisVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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2011Notes
This article was published in the journal, Defence Studies [© Taylor & Francis] and the definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14702436.2011.630175ISSN
1470-2436eISSN
1743-9698Publisher version
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