Doing Less with Less: Making Britain More Secure

The only way to avoid dodgy dossiers and dubious foreign adventures is to acknowledge that the post-Cold War world is a far safer place than neoconservative rhetoricians would have us believe. The Ministry of Defence should reclaim its pre-Orwellian meaning and the armed forces should be scaled back accordingly.

Dr Paul Robinson is Assistant Director of the Centre for Security Studies, and also Acting Director of the Institute of Applied Ethics, at the University of Hull, and is the author and editor of a variety of works on military history, military ethics, and international security. He has served as an officer in both the British and Canadian armies.