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Eugene

(61,595 posts)
Mon Feb 11, 2019, 10:15 AM Feb 2019

Post-Brexit UK ready to use "hard power" - defence minister

Source: Reuters

BREXIT FEBRUARY 10, 2019 / 7:18 PM / UPDATED 11 MINUTES AGO

Post-Brexit UK ready to use "hard power" - defence minister

William James
4 MIN READ

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will use military force to support its interests after Brexit, defence minister Gavin Williamson said on Monday, in a speech setting out a global role for the armed forces but with little detail on how to fund such ambitions in the long term.

Williamson outlined plans to send Britain’s new aircraft carrier to the Pacific, where London has been seeking to demonstrate its influence in relation to China, and invest his defence budget in new equipment and cyber capabilities.

Citing Russia as a danger to the international order, Williamson called for a tougher military stance after Brexit.

“Brexit has brought us to a great moment in our history. A moment when we must strengthen our global presence, enhance our lethality, and increase our mass,” he said.

He said boundaries between peace and war were becoming “blurred” by the increasing use of technological warfare, subversion and propaganda, and that Britain and its allies had to be ready “to use hard power to support our global interests”.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-defence/post-brexit-uk-ready-to-use-hard-power-defence-minister-idUSKCN1Q000J
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Post-Brexit UK ready to use "hard power" - defence minister (Original Post) Eugene Feb 2019 OP
What? Does he want to reconquer India? comradebillyboy Feb 2019 #1
India, half of Africa, Hong Kong, Malaya, whatever it takes. Pope George Ringo II Feb 2019 #2
... And it's about making sure that UK can still maintain Ghost Dog Feb 2019 #3
For the six cows who will be left after all the banks go to Frankfurt and Dublin. Pope George Ringo II Feb 2019 #5
Defence Secretary's brain absent without leave soryang Feb 2019 #4

Pope George Ringo II

(1,896 posts)
2. India, half of Africa, Hong Kong, Malaya, whatever it takes.
Mon Feb 11, 2019, 11:23 AM
Feb 2019

To the extent that Brexit isn't about keeping brown people out of England, it's about living in the 19th Century.

 

Ghost Dog

(16,881 posts)
3. ... And it's about making sure that UK can still maintain
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 12:13 AM
Feb 2019

the City of London and its international tax-evading tax haven status.

Pope George Ringo II

(1,896 posts)
5. For the six cows who will be left after all the banks go to Frankfurt and Dublin.
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 12:43 AM
Feb 2019

London's days as a financial center are about to be brutalised.

soryang

(3,299 posts)
4. Defence Secretary's brain absent without leave
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 12:21 AM
Feb 2019
The defence secretary’s big talk about boosting the UK’s ‘global presence’ and ‘hard power’ proves he’s lost touch with reality


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