Who decides how to use the UK military budget and how can we be sure that the UK’s armed forces can meet the threats of tomorrow? This book provides the answers to these questions. Concentrating on decisions taken below the political level, it uncovers the factors that underpin the translation of strategic direction into military capability.

In preparing for the future, which is the core exercise of "strategic management," it is essential for a country to anticipate and assess various risks that could arise, and to realize "disruptive" innovations ahead of others that would reverse the position of advantage between their country and others. The possible ways to accomplish these goals would include: investing limited resources selectively and intensively into areas expected to grow in the future; procuring from abroad resources that are too scarce domestically for achieving declared goals; and deliberately establishing a system that would make an organization and its functions change daily in order to speedily cope with changes in environment and competitive conditions. This expertise is already established in the study of management; how to apply it to processes of operating military organizations and of setting military strategies are the themes of strategic management.

The Black Door explores the evolving relationship between successive British prime ministers and the intelligence agencies, from Asquith’s Secret Service Bureau to Cameron’s National Security Council.

Who decides how to use the UK military budget and how can we be sure that the UK's armed forces can meet the threats of tomorrow? This book provides the answers to these questions. Concentrating on decisions taken below the political level, it uncovers the factors that underpin the translation of strategic direction into military capability.

The Almanac of World Military Power er en gennemgang af de enkelte landes hære, flåder og luftvåben. For hvert enkelt land gives et nationalt overblik omfattende geografi, befolkning, økonomi, styreform og politik herunder forsvars- og sikkerhedspolitik; en kort omtale af landets samlede militære styrke, samt forsvarsbudget; de militære enheders organisation, opbygning og størrelse; oversigter over anvendt materiel (våben, køretøjer, materiel m.v.). Værket er yderst anvendeligt til en vurdering af de enkelte landes militære formåen.

The text suggests that the European Union is undemocrataic, unconstitutional and a threat to British democracy. In its second part, the future of both Britain and Europe is considered and the reinvention of the EU proposed.