We Need to Talk about Defence

<p><b>Based on a distinguished 35-year career in the RAF as an Air Commodore Andrew R. Curtis highlights what is wrong with the way defence is managed today and presents evidence-based proposals to fix it.</b> <p/>Defence is failing to deliver. From the ability of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to develop defence policy to the single service's - Royal Navy British Army and Royal Air Force (RAF) - ability to acquire and maintain military capability and undertake military operations. This is not a new problem; indeed ever since the creation of the MoD in 1964 there have been tensions between the department of state and the armed forces over allocations of responsibility authority and accountability. <p/> Concerned with political oversight; the allocation of responsibility authority and accountability; administration of people; organisational structures; and policies and processes Curtis compellingly demonstrates the critical need to reform the management of Defence for the UK's armed forces to fight and win in the future.</p>