Dods Monitoring's Connor Smart sets out the current challenges for UK defence and predicts 'the way we look at and deal with defence will change and the debate about capability, funding and the ever-present politics will become a more mainstream agenda'. 

The cost of a single person sleeping rough in the UK for 12 months is estimated at £20,128 and the cost of successful intervention just £1,426. Veterans Aid is all about prevention, which is why a Scottish businessman and an English soldier will be swapping their respective desks and tanks for a kayak in June in a bid to navigate 97 miles of the mighty River Tweed.

Britain will build its own satellite navigation system if it is shut out of the EU's Galileo programme after Brexit, Philip Hammond has declared.

Cuts to conventional military equipment could see the UK forced to deploy nuclear weapons in future battles, Gavin Williamson has suggested.

Former Grenadier Guardsman Sir Mike Penning MP writes about the abduction and murder of his former Captain, Robert Nairac GC, who was murdered by the IRA 41 years ago, and whose body has never been found.

Theresa May’s tough rhetoric against the Russian regime is being undermined by a “business as usual” approach to Russian cash, say MPs.

Britain is to send hundreds more troops to Afghanistan after Gavin Williamson told Theresa May they are needed to tackle the growing threat posed by Isis.

The influential House of Commons Defence select committee has called for ‘a pause’ over the possible privatisation of Ministry of Defence (MoD) firefighters.

Theresa May has refused to give British troops who served in Northern Ireland during the Troubles an amnesty from prosecution.

Jeremy Corbyn will call on the Government to guarantee that new Royal Navy vessels will be manufactured in UK shipyards.

Brussels could be putting lives at risk if the UK is shut out of a €10bn space satellite project, David Davis has warned.

The Foreign Secretary has declared that Britain “has no intention of walking away" from the Iran nuclear deal after Donald Trump dramatically pulled US support for the agreement.

Lieutenant General Mark Carleton-Smith will take over the army’s top job in June, Gavin Williamson has announced. 

Minsters are considering restricting British firms’ security cooperation with Europe, as the row over the EU satellite Galileo escalates.

Disagreement over the future of an inquiry into killings that happened during the Northern Irish Troubles caused a Cabinet “spat” yesterday, it has been reported.

Prominent Conservative MP Johnny Mercer has come under fire for suggesting veterans charities overstate the scale of PTSD to make more cash.

Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has thrown his weight behind calls to waive hefty fees for Afghan interpreters who put their lives at risk serving alongside British troops and now want to settle in the UK.

Britain's enemies are "perilously close" to testing the strength of the country's Armed Forces because the Government is not spending enough money on defence, a former military chief has warned.

Gavin Williamson has called on journalists and people with IT and cyber skills to join the UK’s reserve forces to help tackle the “age of disinformation” being propagated by Russia.

Firebrand Labour MP Chris Williamson has laid bare his “deep regret” over voting to support military action in the Middle East.

Ahead of his Lords Question on Thursday 26 April, Lord Haskel writes for PoliticsHome on the future of Galileo space project.

Shadow Defence Secretary Nia Griffith has broken ranks with the Labour leadership over the recent military action taken by Theresa May in Syria.

Emily Thornberry has denied claims that Russia is preventing independent inspectors from investigating the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack on Syrian civilians.

The shortfall in military personnel is the largest it has been in a decade and ministers must take swift action to close the gap, the official Government watchdog has said.