Selected articles appearing in UK newspapers Tuesday 15th 2012
May 15th, 2012 by l.seddon
Daily Telegraph
British servicemen shot dead named as Lee Davies and Brent McCarthy
Balanced defence budget is no respite for Service personnel
James Kirkup
Filling the black hole [Leading Article]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/9264755/Filling-the-black-hole.html
Electromagnetic pulses explained
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/9097658/Electromagnetic-pulses-explained.html
Future of Scottish regiment names ‘back in melting pot’
Simon Johnson
Soldier might have been killed by British sniper shot
English language al-Qaeda training manual revealed
Duncan Gardham
Pakistan: time to ‘move on’ and improve relations with US
Pakistani officer accused of terrorism calls for ties to US to be cut
Financial Times
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MoD plugs £38bn budget “black hole”
James Blitz
on Page 2
Nuclear talks spur rivalry in Tehran
Najmeh Bozorgmehr
on Page 8
Guardian
Defence cuts help MoD win war against ‘woeful budget indiscipline’
Nick Hopkins
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/may/14/defence-cuts-mod-spending-hammond?INTCMP=SRCH
A plan for apprenticeship success [in association with BAE Systems]
Jan Murray
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business-skills/a-plan-for-apprenticeship-success?INTCMP=SRCH
Nato must investigate the civilian casualties of its Libyan campaign [Comments]
David Mepham
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/may/14/nato-civilian-casualties-libyan-campaign
Philip Hammond, the man with the magic whiteboard
Nick Hopkins
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/may/14/philip-hammond-defence-secretary
Nato’s battle of spin with the Taliban marks a new era for Afghanistan
James Burke
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/may/14/nato-taliban-new-era-afghanistan
Inquest opens into soldier’s death in Afghanistan
Press Association
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/may/14/inquest-soldier-death-afghanistan
British soldiers murdered in Afghanistan named by MoD
Press Association
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/may/14/murdered-british-soldiers-named-afghanistan
British dead and wounded in Afghanistan, month by month
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/sep/17/afghanistan-casualties-dead-wounded-british-data
A cultural revolution and UK defence budget miracle
Richard Norton-Taylor and Nick Hopkins
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/defence-and-security-blog/2012/may/14/military-budget-weapons
Independent
Government reveals it has balanced the defence budget – but at what cost to Britain?
Oliver Wright
Not even Hammond knows if the problem’s been fixed [Comments]
Major General Tim Cross
Nato defends its role over civilian deaths in Libya
Alastair Beach
Soldiers killed in Afghanistan named
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/soldiers-killed-in-afghanistan-named-7746147.html
Times
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Declaration of War [Re: Ministry of Defence books balancing] [Leading Article]
on Page 2
We have balanced defence books, says Hammond
Deborah Haynes
on Page 3
Incoherent: damning view of Britain’s foreign policy
Sam Coates
on Page 11
Never take your foot off the reform pedal [Re: MoD budget] [Opinions]
Liam Fox
on Page 20
Happy landing? [Letters]
Various
on Page 22
Serco braced for first-half fall
on Page 39
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