Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

The new technologies in the UK defence investment plan

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par Arun Dawson, PhD Candidate, Department of War Studies, King's College London

Seventy years ago, Britain confronted a dilemma. It wanted to remain a leading military power but no longer had the economic resources to sustain all the conventional capabilities it had inherited from the second world war.

The solution proposed in the 1957 Sandys defence white paper was technological. Guided missiles, Duncan Sandys argued, were transforming warfare so fundamentally that many traditional capabilities, including some crewed combat aircraft, would become obsolete.

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