PRESENTER THIS WEEK: TIM COOPER
SITREP TRAIL THURS, 11th August
In Afghanistan - could the Taliban be about to take back control of Lashkar Gar?
In Syria – a humanitarian crisis emerges and Assad launches barrel bomb strikes
Russia re-boots its armed forces, there’s no junk and it's all hi-tech.
And, an audience with the Chilcot Report...The Iraq Inquiry gets the Edinburgh Fringe treatment.
PRESENTER THIS WEEK: TIM COOPER
Studio guest: BFBS Defence Analyst Christopher Lee
OTHER INTERVIEWS:
11th August
AFGHANISTAN
Military analyst Eric Grove and BFBS defence Analyst Christopher Lee.
SYRIA
Fawaz Gerges is Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics
RUSSIA TURKEY
Military analyst Eric Grove and BFBS defence Analyst Christopher Lee.
RUSSIA CAPABILITY
Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General Sir Richard Shirreff.
CHILCOT AT THE FRINGE
BFBS reporter, Ali Gibson at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
THURSDAYS at 4:30pm UK TIME on BFBS RADIO 2 and at 6:30pm UK TIME on BFBS & UK Bases
You can listen on BFBS Radio 2 at 1630 (UK time) and at 1830 (UK time) on BFBS (via web, App & DAB in the UK and on FM in Scotland, Colchester, Salisbury Plain, Aldershot, Catterick & Blandford Forum)
Sky Channel 0211
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