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'Cats and Traps': Launching the Carrier Debate in the Right Direction?

Media debate on the UK's carrier programme is focusing on the jets, rather than the ships they land on. Central to this discussion is 'cats and traps', the launch and recovery system, which drives the choice of aircraft. Critics who say that this will cost too much overlook the long-term strategic value it will add.

Of Jets and Carriers... Again

As the UK government grapples with whether or not to carry out a U-turn over which variant of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), chiefly because of issues surrounding carrier conversion costs, there are broader issues beyond technical and financial ones, and some echoes from the past.

UKTA No. 1: Counter-Terrorism in an Olympic Year

Valentina Soria, Margaret Gilmore, Michael Clarke and Nick Parker

The first report focuses on the British counter-terrorism landscape as we prepare ourselves for the 2012 Olympic Games.