“Lessons will be learned” is a mantra that has become the required response to every British inquiry into instances of abuse, scandal or disaster, typically uttered shortly before the conclusions drawn are forgotten, the recommendations ignored, and in time, the same mistakes repeated. Seven years and £10m of public money in the making, is the long-awaited Chilcot report destined to suffer the same fate, or are things at last about to change? Dr Gareth Evans reports.

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At the NATO summit in Warsaw, NATO and the EU issued their first joint declaration on security cooperation, pledging to work together particularly in the fields of hybrid warfare and cyber warfare, as well as joint maritime operations to prevent illegal migration. Claire Apthorp takes a closer look at these policy decisions and asks how they will shape the defence landscape in the near future.

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Despite regular fitness testing and physical training, increasing numbers of armed forces personnel are overweight or obese, and some are turning to extreme measures to achieve a healthy weight. Could more sedentary, IT-focussed roles be to blame or even make high levels of fitness superfluous? And, conversely, could technology even form part of the solution?

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Seventy years on from the end of WWII, the European defence industry remains almost entirely organised along old national lines. This legacy has significant implications today including exorbitant costs and overcapacity, leading many to call for consolidation and the establishment of a single European defence sector.

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