{"id":12999,"date":"2018-02-06T13:11:03","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T13:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=12999"},"modified":"2018-02-06T13:11:03","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T13:11:03","slug":"brexit-policy-paralysis-harming-uk-armed-forces-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/brexit-policy-paralysis-harming-uk-armed-forces-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"Brexit \u2018policy paralysis\u2019 harming UK armed forces: Expert"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Britain\u2019s pending divorce from the European Union (EU) Is already taking its toll on the country\u2019s armed forces, warns a leading British military specialist.<\/p>\n

Professor Malcolm Chalmers, the deputy director general of the London-based military think tank the Royal United Services Institute, warned in a report that Brexit had put the government in a state of \u201cpolicy paralysis,<\/em>\u201d taking away its ability to make \u201cdifficult decisions.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government is increasingly perceived to be unable to make difficult decisions, distracted by Brexit and unable to play an international role that is commensurate with the resources it devotes to this purpose,\u201d<\/em> wrote Chalmers, who also serves as an adviser to the UK Parliament\u2019s joint committee on the national security strategy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe longer this policy paralysis continues, the greater the risk to the UK\u2019s reputation as a reliable ally, and the stronger the (unfair) perception that it is no longer capable of being a serious security player. With talks on the EU\u2019s future relationship with the UK approaching a critical moment, this is not a helpful message,\u201d<\/em> he added.<\/p>\n

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Calling for more military spending, Chalmers stated that an ongoing review of the military budget by Prime Minister Theresa May\u2019s government had to focus allocating more money to the military personnel as well, comparable in amount to what they spend for equipment.<\/p>\n

The austerity plans considered by May might include taking away nine warships and 100 helicopters from the Royal Navy and Air Force while delaying tank upgrade.<\/p>\n

May\u2019s government has until 2019 to strike a Brexit deal with the EU.<\/p>\n

Threat from Russia<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chalmers\u2019 20-page report, titled Decision Time: The National Security Capability Review 2017-2018 and Defence, repeated previous claims by British military officials that Russia was a big threat to the UK.<\/p>\n

The expert warned that social media and cyber espionage could be Russia\u2019s main points of attack.<\/p>\n

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\u201cRussia\u2019s aggressive use of rapidly developing modern technologies (including social media and cyber espionage) is particularly concerning,\u201d<\/em> Chalmers wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a result, in contrast to the operational experience of the two decades since 1990, the UK\u2019s armed forces are having to put deterrence of a strong peer competitor at the heart of their preparations,\u201d<\/em> he further argued.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Britain\u2019s pending divorce from the European Union (EU) Is already taking its toll on the country\u2019s armed forces, warns a leading British military specialist. Professor Malcolm Chalmers, the deputy director general of the London-based military think tank the Royal United Services Institute, warned in a report that Brexit had put the government in a state …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":13000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-islamic-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13001,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12999\/revisions\/13001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}