The RAF is trying to reach ‘impossible’ diversity targets by pausing employment offers to more than worthy white male recruits.

The training programme and Boris Johnson’s visit to Kiev were far more likely to have been part of Britain’s efforts to exert soft power than it was a realistic attempt to affect the military outcome in the theatre.

The darkened skies of the American Empire are more likely to have been caused by the passing clouds than a setting sun.

Our presence in Afghanistan could not go on indefinitely, but the exit needed to be handled in the right way.

The entire defence review goes from a relatively ambitious and reasonable plan to modernise the armed forces into a confusing mess.