Defence Spending and Procurement in the United Kingdom

Matthew Richard Hinchliffe Uttley; Andrew Mark Dorman

Defence Spending and Procurement in the United Kingdom

Matthew Richard Hinchliffe Uttley, Andrew Mark Dorman

Defence Studies

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Abstract

The chapter investigates the determinants of United Kingdom (UK) defence budget setting and the performance of its weapons acquisition process. The analysis identifies the perennial tensions between the UK’s aspiration to remain a ‘Tier One’ military power and the financial resources necessary to retain this status against the backdrop of its relative decline as a global power since 1945. It focuses on how this factor has affected UK defence procurement choices, defence-industrial strategies and reforms to the weapons acquisition process intended to align the ‘ends’ of defence policy with the necessary budgetary ‘means’. The primary conclusion is that that the UK’s post-2010 defence procurement reforms have failed, thus far at least, to remedy the recurring affordability challenges the UK has confronted in sustaining its Tier One status as a military power.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Research Handbook on the Arms Trade
Editors	Andrew Tan
Publisher	Edward Elgar
Chapter	13
Pages	193-207
Number of pages	15
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 13 Oct 2020

Keywords

United Kingdom, defence, procurement, budget setting, arms exports, defence industry, NATO, Tier One

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