In addition to practical measures of investment and expansion, the review lays out the more difficult changes that are needed to respond to security challenges.

These recommendations and investments – drones, autonomous systems and £1 billion for a “digital targeting web” that would ...

Labour's 10-year strategy 'an exercise in tightly bounded ambition' already 'overshadowed by a row over money' ...

The strategic defence review is the latest overhaul of Britain’s defence outlook, following an integrated review of security, defence, development, and foreign policy in 2021, which was then ...

Strategic Defence Review: UK 'moving to warfighting readiness' as it commits to build attack submarines. The government says it would commit to "a landmark shift in our deterrence and defence ...

June 02, 2025 at 5:19pm BST. Sir Keir Starmer and John Healey have announced the Government’s response to the Strategic Defence Review. Here are some of the key points from the review: ...

Starmer vows to make Britain ‘battle-ready’ — but row over funding threatens to derail plans. The long-awaited strategic defence review warned the UK may need to move even more quickly than ...

The long awaited Strategic Defence Review (SDR) has been published by the UK Government. The 144-page SDR falls short of detailing a comprehensive future order of. Home; Military Aviation.

The strategic defence review calls for a “small" rise in the size of the regular army “as a priority” – although it does add “when funding allows”. On Sunday, however, the defence secretary said that ...

The SDR is Released from Purgatory. The much-discussed UK Strategic Defence Review (SDR) has recently been subject to a wearingly familiar succession of leaks and speculation, and now appears likely ...

The Strategic Defence Review (SDR) recognises that cyber and the electromagnetic spectrum (CyberEM) are integral for UK defence. Operations in all domains rely on cyber security and access to spectrum ...