Stuart Crawford

The Scottish independence dream is in tatters despite 19 years of Nationalist rule at Holyrood – STUART CRAWFORD explains the biggest errors made by the SNP leadership

Labour’s defence spending plans fall far short of the £28 billion needed to maintain existing programmes

there’s no hiding the fact that equipment procurement for the British army is a bit of a mess. I have written about this extensively in the past and don’t need to repeat the arguments here, but the root causes are a sclerotic MoD rooted in practices which might have been acceptable in the 1950s but cannot hope to keep up with the pace of modern technological advances, plus a pathological fascination with ‘gold-plating’ every requirement.

The brutal truth is that nobody else appears to have solved the problem, writes the former army officer

There has been a bit of a flurry of interest recently over the British army's ‘new' armoured fighting vehicles, following on from the long-delayed

Defence analyst Lt Col STUART CRAWFORD warns that Moscow's claim that there will be 'consequences' for the UK should concentrate minds on what we are up against

What would happen if it was a British ship broadcasting the distress call, and finds an uncomfortable answer about the state of the Royal Navy, asks the former army officer

Bottled water and volunteer wardens are no substitute for the armed forces Britain actually needs to deter Russia, writes the former army officer

Defence analyst Lt Col Stuart Crawford has explored Britain's recruitment crisis

The more troubling question is whether Britain retains the firepower to defend its territory, writes Lt Col Stuart Crawford