Professor Dr Julian Lindley-French
Chairman at The Alphen Group | Defence Strategy, International Relations
November 17, 2025
“The past is another country; they do things differently there. But men still shoot each other, don’t they?”
L.P. Hartley
November 17th, 2025. Forget Britain’s 2025 Strategic Defence Review (SDR). It is as dead as a Dodo and takes it place amongst that great Pantheon of British defence fiction – where Shakespeare meets Liddell Hart. Nice story though. In its place is the real Brexit – Britain’s effective abandonment of Europe’s defence. Two-faced politicians in London and their strategically illiterate advisors like to pretend Britain is going to re-arm, when in fact they have decided to retreat. At one and the same time urging NATO to do more, whilst behind closed doors blocking NATO from the very investments needed for fear of political embarrassment. Yes, I have my sources.
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