General Sir David Richards Address - Press Coverage

14 July 2010 - - Xinhua News - Britain names new chief of armed forces for radical change General Richards is unafraid of speaking out on military issues he considers important. In January, at the beginning of the consultation process that will result in the SDR, he told an audience at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London: "Defense must respond to the new strategic, and indeed economic, environment by ensuring much more ruthlessly that our armed forces are appropriate and relevant to the context in which they will operate rather than the one they might have expected to
14 July 2010 - - BBC News - Profile: General Sir David Richards In a recent speech at the International Institute of Strategic Studies, he insisted: "Success in Afghanistan is necessary for our future. Not because of its position or resources, although our campaign there must be placed in a wider and longer-term geo-strategic context, but because of the global consequences of our success or failure."
14 July 2010 - - Reuters - Afghan war veteran named as new UK military chief Richards has suggested in the past he is no fan of big-ticket defence projects. In a speech in January, he said Britain's armed forces should adapt to new forms of warfare and tight budgets by giving priority to troops on the ground and spending less on expensive weapons systems. "While ... I am emphatically not advocating getting rid of all such equipment, one can buy a lot of UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles or drones) or satellite technology for the cost of a few JSF (Joint Strike Fighters) and heavy
19 Apr 2010 - - Time - Defense of the Realm: Britain's Armed Forces Crisis Such assertions cut little ice with 60% of his compatriots who, according to a survey for the National Army Museum, believe Britain should never have gone into Iraq. The real value of the inquiry may lie in the detailed testimonies provided by witnesses from politics, civil service and the military that are forming a kind of virtual manual of how to not to run such operations. General Frederick Viggers, Britain's senior military representative in Iraq in 2003, told the inquiry that a lack of expertise in Wh
17 Feb 2010 - - Independent - Sir Stephen Dalton: Modern warfare makes the RAF more, not less, crucial to Britain Air and space power isn't an optional luxury that can be added to an erstwhile military operation on the ground or at sea; rather, it provides the essential foundation for any sort of military endeavour. Air power is unique. It sets and shapes the critical conditions before and during operations on the ground or at sea. There are circumstances when air power alone has the capability to achieve the desired political or military effects, just as in the 1920s and 1990s or early 2000s. Consider those situations
16 Feb 2010 - - Scotsman - Air power is not an 'optional luxury', says Chief Marshal In a speech to the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, he said that it was important to retain the ability to mount a wide range of operations using various "levers" of force.
16 Feb 2010 - - Financial Times - Air force chief defends role and spending Britain must resist squandering the strength of its air force by allowing Afghanistan to be a prison for our thinking about overhauling the armed forces, the head of the air force said on Monday. In a forthright speech that challenged arguments made by other service chiefs, Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Dalton, chief of the air staff, argued that to prepare for yesterdays requirements for counterinsurgency would be dangerous and wrong.
16 Feb 2010 - - Guardian - RAF chief backs power in the skies Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Dalton, chief of the air staff, said the Afghanistan campaign would not necessarily be a model for future overseas operations, and warned that the post-election strategic defence review should not focus only on building a "niche" counter-insurgency force. In an apparent dig at General Sir David Richards, the head of the army, Dalton told the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London: "We need to think very carefully whether our Afghanistan-era force structure is a

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General Sir David Richards Address - Press Coverage

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