Business of war and terrorism

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Towards Post Cold War conflicts, the English army became the heir of a strong strategic culture. Indeed, the geo-politic and military story of England has been made mainly by maritime army power, in order to avoid any insurrections from other countries. However, in today's absence of any direct threats towards England and in a world evolution of conflicts, it is important for England like other any European countries to develop alliances in order to guarantee a world security. Since the end of the Post War, the world has known new localized conflicts for a part, with the example of the "Balkanization" of the conflicts, and the apparition of new threats with the notion of terrorism (9/11). The last White Papers edited by the English Ministry of Defense dealt with Defense issues, and emphasized on the way that the English army must change its overall vision of its Defense Industrial Strategy showing their will to adapt their army in the new international strategic context.

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[...] In a second part, we will focus more on a special military platform, by doing a comparison between the Euro-Fighter and the Rafale, in order to understand why or why not a co-operation will be relevant. The UK aerospace industry: towards a European co-operation? The case of the UK aerospace industry is quite interesting, regarding a future possible co-operation within Europe. Indeed, this sector is really a core sector in the military area, representing more than 800 companies in UK and no less than 120,000 employments. One more time, the importance of Research and development is essential, due to the “high value of these products. [...]

[...] Indeed, such a decision will contribute to reinforce the overall links that already exist between England and EU, and that will integrate much more England in the business they do with their allies, and lead to a more exhaustive open European market. Within NATO, a greater co-operation from UK and the other nations will also lead to some advantages. Such a co-operation will allow firstly a more unified defence customer across Europe, consequently more powerful, providing more chances of success in collaborative projects. From an other point, benefits could be gained thanks to important economies of scale. [...]

[...] It is evident that the long term heath of the UK Defence must depend on this investments being maintained. By spending an average of billion per year in Defence the UK ministry of Defence can not dealing with every sectors of the Defence Industry. Consequently, the MoD has to make choice, by identifying which technology deserves to be develop and which do not. In order to do so, the Mod has created the National Defence and Aerospace Systems Panels, which identify industry's priorities for better targeting the research and development support. [...]

[...] Indeed, in the light of the previous White paper, we will see in this part what the today's relationships between UK and Europe are, before studying the potential interest for UK to concentrate its Defence sector with the overall Europe, notably regarding the Research and development. Co-operation between UK and Europe already existing Add to the fact that UK is member of the Security Council, it is evident that it does not want to act alone anymore; that is moreover in the frame of co-operation that it defines is new policy. After the Cold War, United Kingdom has favoured more and more its relationships with its allies. Indeed, in the maritime sector for example, the navy is working with Netherlands. [...]

[...] One more time, this can lead to think that a greater co-operation with Europe will resolve that problem. Source: Ducan Macrae (New Deal For UK industry) In an other point, some today's activities has already shown that UK co- operation was beneficial, notably with JSF programs, which has demonstrated the possibility of UK to be competitive within collaborative projects. Moreover, the Euro Fighter Aircraft, which has been developed in common by UK, Germany, Spain, and Italy, has also shown the profitability of such European joint ventures. [...]