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(2008) A Tale of Two Cities: Transatlantic Defence Acquisition Priorities

This article seeks to move a little deeper into analysing the nature of Transatlantic defence procurement, ignoring the financial values to look at the similarities in acquisition priorities of eac...
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(2007) Platforms: Quantity versus Quality

Funding of the UK’s defence policy, which is seen to be inadequate. As the funding shortfalls escalate, salami slicing and moving programmes to the right increasingly produce an unbalanced programm...
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(2006) Decline and Fall of Defence Research

This section is aimed at stimulating debate on a subject of wide interest. In this issue, we look at the low, and declining, priority of defence research and technology in European countries, leadi...
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(2005) The Next Grand Fleet: A resource constrained perspective on naval acquisition challenges

This article aims to assess the challenges around naval force structure, vessel acquisition and operating costs from a historical perspective, and aims to understand where the most sensitive trade-...
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(2004) Parking Tanks on Whose Lawn ? A review of defence sector acquisition activities

The objectives of this article are threefold: Firstly, to provide definitions and an overview of merger and acquisition (M&A) activity; Secondly, to indicate why this activity is relevant to the...
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