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Defence Minister Outlines UK Defense Challenges

With UK operations in Afghanistan scheduled to draw to a close by the end of 2014, and with reduced budgets going forward, the Ministry of Defence is facing a number of tough challenges. Speaking yesterday here at Farnborough at the ADS Defence Conference, UK Secretary of State for Defence Philip Hammond defined those challenges into three broad areas.

Referring to the ramifications of the planned withdrawal from Afghanistan, Hammond noted that, “We have to deal with reconfiguring our forces to face the challenges of the future as we come to the end of a period of relative certainty and predictability.

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