BFBS Sitrep

Russian tanks are back in Ukraine, so what’s Putin’s long term plan & what can NATO do?   British troops complete their withdrawal from Afghanistan so who’s left to make the peace work?   Ebola - How long can the army stay in Sierra Leone?   And we hear from a man whose business is Remembrance all year round     PRESENTER THIS WEEK : Kate Gerbeau   STUDIO GUEST: BFBS defence analyst Christopher Lee & former   OTHER INTERVIEWS:    BBC’s Diplomatic Editor Bridget Kendall discussing Russia and Ukraine. BFBS reporter Fiona Weir interview with Commander of the British Forces, Brigadier James Stopford.   Armed Forces Minister, Mark Francois talking to Josella Waldron   Steve Douglas who runs the British Grenadier Bookshop in Ypres?   …………………………………………………………………………… THURSDAYS at 4:30 UK TIME on BFBS RADIO 2and at 6:30 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 webb, App & DAB in the UK and on FM in Scotland, Colchester, Salisbury Plain, Aldershot, Catterick & Blandford Forum)  Sky Channel 0211 Alternatively listen again on the website

Are technology companies trailing in the wake of cyber terrorists?   The American diplomatic who says the US/UK relationship really is “special”   Plus, what lessons can we learn from the Western Front?   And 25 years, the impact of the fall of the Berlin Wall.         PRESENTER THIS WEEK : Kate Gerbeau   STUDIO GUEST: BFBS defence analyst Christopher Lee & former   OTHER INTERVIEWS:    The former director of GCHQ, Professor Sir David Omand.   The American Ambassador to London, Matthew Barzun     BFBS presenter, Steve Britton.

British troops are on their way to Sierra Leone to help in the fight against Ebola but is the world’s reaction too little, too late?   The Former Chief of the Defence Staff Lord Richards talks tough on spending.   The Army prepares for Exercise Black Eagle in Poland.                                                                                       And, the North Korean leader is back in action in North Korea…or is he?   . PRESENTER: Kate Gerbeau   STUDIO GUEST: BFBS defence analyst Christopher Lee OTHER INTERVIEWS:    BBC’s Mark Doyle from the Ghanaian capital Accra, discussing the Ebola crisis.     BFBS reporter Tim Cooper reporting from RFA Argus before it departs for Africa.   Exercise Black Eagle with BFBS reporter Rob Olver   Former Chief of the Defence Staff, General Lord Richards speaking about Ebola, IS and defence spending.   Korean expert Andrea Berger from RUSI     ……………………………………………………………………………………………… THURSDAYS at 4:30 UK TIME on BFBS RADIO 2and at 6:30 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 webb, App & DAB in the UK and on FM in Scotland, Colchester, Salisbury Plain, Aldershot, Catterick & Blandford Forum)  Sky Channel 0211   Alternatively listen again on the website

(First broadcast on Thursday 9th October 2014 at 4.30pm)   PLEASE NOTE PRESENTER THIS WEEK: Paula Middlehurst   British troops take the fight against Ebola into Sierra Leone, but is it too little too late?   Why Turkey is reluctant to get involved in the fight against IS.   Why the US Vice President had to say sorry to the leaders of Turkey and the UAE.   And the Party conference season’s over – so what did the main UK parties say about Defence?   PRESENTER: Paula Middlehurst   STUDIO GUEST: BFBS defence analyst Christopher Lee OTHER INTERVIEWS:  BFBS reporter James Hirst speaking to the Defence Secretary Michael Fallon.   Sky News Correspondent Alex Crawford discussing the Ebola crisis.Political reporter,  Aaron Blake, from the Washington Post speaking about the US Vice President Joe Biden’s recent comments on IS.   BFBS reporter James Hirst with a round up of defence issued discussed during the Party conference season.   ………………………………………………………………………………………………THURSDAYS at 4:30 UK TIME on BFBS RADIO 2and at 6:30 UK TIME on BFBS & UK BasesYou can listen on BFBS Radio 2 at 1630 (UK time) and at 1830 (UK time) on BFBS (via webb, App & DAB in the UK and on FM in Scotland, Colchester, Salisbury Plain, Aldershot, Catterick & Blandford Forum)  Sky Channel 0211Alternatively listen again on the website  

The Prime Minister says Britain is ready to play its part in the fight against Islamic State, but will Parliament agree with him?What will airstrikes achieve, and what do the British public think?Also this week: Climate change, is it a bigger global threat to world security than terrorism?   PRESENTER: Kate Gerbeau   STUDIO GUEST: BFBS defence analyst Christopher Lee & Professor Paul Rogers from the department of peace studies at the University of Bradford.   OTHER INTERVIEWS:    BFBS reporter James Hirst, covering events in Westminster. Tanya Abbraham from YouGov's political and social research team, on UK public opinion on airstrikes in Iraq & Syria.   ……………………………………………………………………………………………… THURSDAYS at 4:30 UK TIME on BFBS RADIO 2and at 6:30 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 webb, App & DAB in the UK and on FM in Scotland, Colchester, Salisbury Plain, Aldershot, Catterick & Blandford Forum)  Sky Channel 0211 Alternatively listen again on the website

In today's Sitrep.....   Obama says no boots on the ground in Iraq but his military chief says otherwise – who’s right?   How the military is trying to contain the Ebola threat.   And find out why Hitler’s desk is on display at a military museum in Dorset.   PRESENTER: Kate Gerbeau   STUDIO GUEST: BFBS defence analyst Christopher Lee   OTHER INTERVIEWS:    Michael Stathis,Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Southern Utah, on US strategy in Iraq.   Fawaz Gerges, Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics, discussing the brutality of Islamic State.   Hamish De Bretton Gordon, a former British army chemical weapons officer, talking about the Ebola threat and military involvement.   BFBS reporter Tim Cooper reporting from the Keep Military Museum in Dorchester on  one very unusual object:   ……………………………………………………………………………………………… THURSDAYS at 4:30 UK TIME on BFBS RADIO 2and at 6:30 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 webb, App & DAB in the UK and on FM in Scotland, Colchester, Salisbury Plain, Aldershot, Catterick & Blandford Forum)  Sky Channel 0211 Alternatively listen again on the website