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| Subject: UK navy to push into Asia-Pacific with 'increased lethality', minister says Mon Feb 11, 2019 6:53 pm | |
| The UK military is planning a major eastern expansion including a "littoral strike group" in the Indo-Pacific and a new permanent base in the Asia-Pacific region, Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson said on Monday.
The moves were part of a mission to "increase lethality" and make post-Brexit "global Britain" a reality, he told the Royal Unified Services Institute, a defence and security think tank in London.
But Williamson’s speech came as a new report on global security warned national leaders should act prudently as the world entered a time of instability and uncertainty and a "new era of great power competition".
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/uk-navy-to-push-into-asia-pacific-with-increased-lethality-minister-says-20190212-p50x47.html |
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