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Professors Louth and Taylor have been at the heart of the UKs independent analysis of defence and security with their work generating a much broader understanding of the complexities of the subject. I commend this book to you.

Lord William Hague, Chairman of Royal United Services
Institute for Defence and Security Studies

British Defence in the 21st Century

This book analyses UK defence as a complex, interdependent publicprivate enterprise covering politics, management, society, and technology, as well as the military.

Building upon wide-ranging applied research, with extensive access to ministers, policy makers, senior military commanders, and industrialists, the book characterises British defence as a phenomenon that has endured extensive transformation this century. Looking at the subject afresh as a complex, extended enterprise involving politics, alliances, businesses, skills, economics, military practices, and citizens, the authors profoundly reshape our understanding of defence and how it is to be commissioned and delivered in a world dominated by geopolitical risks and uncertainties. The book makes the case that this new understanding of defence must inevitably lead to new policies and processes to ensure its health and vitality.

This book will be of much interest to students of defence studies, British politics, and military and strategic studies, as well as policy makers and practitioners.

John Louth is Director of Defence, Industries and Society at the Royal United Services Institute, and is also a specialist adviser to the House of Commons Defence Select Committee.

Trevor Taylor is Professorial Research Fellow in Defence Management at the Royal United Services Institute.

Contemporary Security Studies
Series Editors: James Gow and Rachel Kerr
Kings College London

This series focuses on new research across the spectrum of international peace and security, in an era where each year throws up multiple examples of conflicts that present new security challenges in the world around them.

Media Strategy and Military Operations in the 21st Century
Mediatizing the Israel Defence Force
Michal Shavit

Ethics, Law and Justifying Targeted Killings
The Obama Administration at War
Jack McDonald

Quasi-State Entities and International Criminal Justice
Legitimising Narratives and Counter-Narratives
Ernst Dijxhoorn

George W. Bushs Foreign Policies
Principles and Pragmatism
Donette Murray, David Brown and Martin A. Smith

Power Relations in the Twenty-First Century
Mapping a Multipolar World?
Edited by Donette Murray and David Brown

Deterring Russia in Europe
Defence Strategies for Neighbouring States
Edited by Nora Vanaga and Toms Rostoks

British Defence in the 21st Century
John Louth and Trevor Taylor

For more information about this series, please visit: www.routledge.com/Contemporary-Security-Studies/book-series/CSS

British Defence in the 21st Century

John Louth and Trevor Taylor

First published 2019
by Routledge
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and by Routledge
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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

2019 John Louth and Trevor Taylor

The right of John Louth and Trevor Taylor to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Louth, John, author. | Taylor, Trevor, 1946 author.
Title: British defence in the 21st century/ John Louth and Trevor Taylor.
Other titles: British defence in the twenty-first century.
Description: First edition. | London ; New York, NY: Routledge/ Taylor & Francis Group, 2019. | Series: Contemporary security studies | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018024844| ISBN 9781138705029 (hardback) | ISBN 9781315202389 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Great BritainMilitary policy. | Industrial policyGreat Britain. | Political planningGreat Britain.
Classification: LCC UA647 .L68 2019 | DDC 355/.033541dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018024844

ISBN: 978-1-138-70502-9 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-20238-9 (ebk)

Typeset in Times New Roman
by Wearset Ltd, Boldon, Tyne and Wear

This work is dedicated to all those women, men, and their families who work in or support the UK Defence Extended Enterprise. We are grateful for the friendship and wisdom of our colleagues at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), especially Dr Lauren Twort, and thank with love our wives for, well, everything.

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The strength of this thoughtful analysis by Professor John Louth and Professor Trevor Taylor, who Ive had the pleasure of knowing for a number of years, is that the logic of their thinking on defence in the United Kingdom seems so obvious. As you read their clear-eyed and logical analysis you can be forgiven for forgetting that the approach they adopt is actually fresh and original.

As senior figures at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, their writing has always been well-informed and has frequently shaped the debate around defence within the UK and beyond. They have been consistent and persuasive advocates of the importance of investment in science and technology to the maintenance of national military advantage. They have also highlighted the importance of skills and competition in the defence industries and articulated the significant part played by the private sector in defence. We may not always have agreed about every detail, but we have at all times shared a conviction about the importance of these issues and a passion to be driven by the evidence. Everyone who cares about the health of the broad defence enterprise should be grateful to them for what they have done, shining a sharp academic yet practical light on important, but sometimes complicated, defence and security ideas and issues.

By considering British defence as an extended enterprise of politics, policy, technologies, industrial capacity, community action, finance, prosperity and, of course, the armed services themselves, they reveal the UK defence system in all of its component and complex constituent parts. It is a thought provoking, comprehensive and highly sophisticated approach and necessary for our understanding if we are to stay safe, at peace, and helping to police the rules-based international order that is central to our prosperity.

This is an important book which I commend to you.

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