In today’s Sitrep with Kate Gerbeau and Christopher Lee…
We have a new Prime Minister and now a new Defence Secretary, so who is Ben Wallace?
The UK wants to put together a European-led maritime protection mission in the Gulf – but what ships are needed and how will it work?
Britain is going to deploy troops to Mali in Africa, but what will they be doing?
And Sitrep’s summer reading list: delve deep into military history and foreign affairs with Sitrep’s reading list.
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