The UK Defence sector

Jacques Fontanel () and Ronald Smith
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Jacques Fontanel: CESICE - Centre d'études sur la sécurité internationale et les coopérations européennes - UPMF - Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 - IEPG - Sciences Po Grenoble - Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble

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Abstract: A restructuration of the defence industry and military budgets of United Kingdom seems to be necessary for the government. Cuts in the planned defence budget are presently being implemented in response to the Options for Change Defence Review. During the 1980s, the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) switched to a policy that privatised the arms firms, emphasised free competition and tried to create a more commercial, value for money driven, procurement policy. The state ensured that it has a domestic defence industrial base that could provide the equipment required to meet its strategic needs. The list of technologies supposed to be essential to maintain a domestic technological base is very short, mainly nuclear and crypto-analysis. Nationalistic in political terms defending British sovereignty, the government is internationalist in commercial terms for civilian and military products and services.

Keywords: UK defence sector; UK military expenditure; UK military strategy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1990-06-28
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Published in Défense économique de l'Europe, Jun 1990, Grenoble, France

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