Authored by Matthew Jamison via The Strategic Culture Foundation,
Recently the UK Royal Navy and Ministry of Defence unveiled their brand new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth at a cost of 3 Billion Pounds. This at a time when UK national finances are under heavy pressure and the country has been experiencing seven years of severe austerity.
British soldiers are preparing to launch legal action against the Ministry of Defence (MoD) over the effects of the anti-malarial drug Lariam.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has accidentally released a secret NATO report complete with code words, ciphers, co-ordinates, radio frequencies and a host of other “special instructions” needed for huge war drills currently under way around Scotland. The manual marked “restricted” somehow made its way into the email inboxes of fishermen and ferry operators The Herald Scotland reports: An MoD official mistakenly circulated a manual for planned air operations during major military exercises involving more than a dozen countries.