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RDS June 2010Ted Bromund (425 Kb)
- The Battle to Reform
UK Defence
Acquisition 
By Bill Kincaid
Foreword by Lord Robertson of Port Ellen
Cartoons by Jim Potts
£20.00 (plus £5.00 P&P), 404 pages
ISBN: 0855161388
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Is Reform Enough? Assessing the Gap Between Challenges and Response in Defence Acquisition Reform
By Dr Ted R. Bromund23 Jun 2010
Ted Bromund is Margaret Thatcher Senior Research Fellow at the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, The Heritage Foundation, Washington. In this article, he sees similarities between acquisition reform in the US and UK, but shows that acquisition reform cannot play a significant role in reducing the gap between defence commitments and available resources. He says that two decades of underinvestment in defence in the UK, the Services' enthusiasm in both countries for 100% solutions, and the changes in the nature of warfare need more radical solutions.
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