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		<description>Last word for word</description>
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			<title>NATO Official Discusses Afghan Challenges</title>
			<description><![CDATA[NATO's senior civilian representative in Afghanistan, Ambassador Sir Simon Gass, gave a lecture at the Royal United Services Institute yesterday on the challenges ahead as Afghanistan prepares to take on responsibility for its own security by 2015.

Sir Simon began by reflecting on the fact that, ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:48:55 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>British Military Chief Lays Out Vision</title>
			<description><![CDATA[General Sir David Richards, the Chief of the Defence Staff, has laid bare his vision and interpretation of the future for the Armed Forces through his "prism".

Here is the full transcript of his lecture to the Royal United Services Institute in London last night, together with extended footage.
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			<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:26:27 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>India Must Act on MMRCA Offsets</title>
			<description><![CDATA[If India is really serious about reducing its dependence on foreign sources for its defence needs, this is the time to act. The MMRCA selection process is nearing its end. The tenders were scheduled to be opened early this month. The lowest bid would then be compared to the notional figure that the ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:27:21 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>MPs Slam BAE During Job Cuts Debate</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Taxpayers could have to fund up to £110m in redundancy costs following 3,000 job losses at BAE Systems, MPs have been told.

Conservative MP David Davis told the House of Commons on Thursday that the bill is "outrageous", adding: "A policy designed to defend and protect British jobs is being used ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:38:40 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>How US Maintains Israel’s Military Edge</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Excerpt from remarks by Andrew J. Shapiro,
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs,
To the Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Washington, DC
November 4, 2011


(…/…)

Preserving Israel’s Qualitative Military Edge is therefore a multi-faceted endeavor that includes m...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:27:32 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Australian Minister Defends JSF Choice</title>
			<description><![CDATA[<b>Transcript: House of Representatives Question Time</b>

ANDREW WILKIE, MEMBER FOR DENISON:      Mr Speaker my question is to the Minister for Defence. Minister, Australia plans to purchase as many as 100 Joint Strike Fighters at a cost of $16 billion dollars but the US program is deeply trouble...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:00:44 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Gates Farewell Speech on Europe and NATO</title>
			<description><![CDATA[<i>As Delivered by Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, 
Brussels, Belgium, Friday, June 10, 2011 </i>


Thank you, Mr. Secretary General, Jaap, for that kind introduction. 

And my thanks to Giles Merritt and the Security and Defense Agenda for the opportunity to speak here today.  This is D...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:41:28 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Aussie Minister on Shipbuilding Programs</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Mr MELHAM (Banks) (14:59): My question is to the Minister for Defence. Will the minister update the House on the progress of the construction of three new air warfare destroyers? 

Mr STEPHEN SMITH (Perth—Minister for Defence and Deputy Leader of the House) (14:59): I thank the member for his ques...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 13:41:35 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>McKeon Offers a Way Forward</title>
			<description><![CDATA[A Way Forward 

My remarks are not intended to be all gloom and doom. There is a way forward here, a way to be responsible stewards of the taxpayers’ dollars without hollowing out the force.

Cutting military items wholesale, given the challenges I’ve laid out, is irresponsible and dangerous, bu...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 13:50:54 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>The Implications of China’s Space Programs</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Mr. Chairman and Members of the Commission, thank you for inviting me to testify at today’s hearing. I will confine my comments to the Commission’s questions on the overall context of the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC’s) emerging use of orbital systems to support military modernization efforts s...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 13:23:39 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>US Official Discusses Arms Trade</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Remarks by Andrew J. Shapiro
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs 
US State Department
Washington, DC, May 3, 2011


Sam, thank you for that kind introduction. I want to thank all of you for taking time out of your busy schedules to attend today. I would especially like to...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 13:18:13 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Commons Panel Hears Evidence on Libya Ops</title>
			<description><![CDATA[House of Commons Oral Evidence Taken Before the Defence Committee: Operations In Libya; on Wednesday 27 April 2011

Witnesses:
-- Rt. Hon Liam Fox MP, Secretary of State for Defence,
-- Major General D A Capewell OBE, Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff (Operations) and -- Mr Peter Watkins, Dir...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 13:51:38 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Expert Details Canada JSF Costs</title>
			<description><![CDATA[One of the main difficulties with the debate regarding the costs of the F-35 is that there are so many definitions of "cost." For example, there is the "unit recurring flyaway cost", the "total flyaway cost", the "procurement cost", the "acquisition cost", the "life-cycle cost", to name just a few. ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:18:31 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>UK Procurement Chief on Acquisition Reform</title>
			<description><![CDATA[<i>Speech delivered by Mr. Bernard Gray, Chief of Defence Materiel, at the Royal United Services Institute/Cranfield University Acquisition Reform Conference, at the Defence Academy, Shrivenham, on Tuesday 15 March 2011. 
Minister for Defence Equipment, Support and Technology -  <a href="http://www...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:49:04 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Testimony on Canada’s JSF Choice</title>
			<description><![CDATA[PARIS --- As the controversy grows about the Canadian government’s decision to acquire the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter with neither a competition nor a public explanation of its decision to spend C$16 billion on the program, government officials have begun a campaign to discredit opponents and critics...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:33:15 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Media Conference on USAF Tanker</title>
			<description><![CDATA[MR. LYNN:  At the start of the process, we made several commitments.  We committed that the source selection for the KC-X would be fair, open and transparent; we committed that the process would be driven by clearly stated requirements defined by the warfighter; and we committed to a fixed-price con...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:35:30 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>UK’s Fox on Value for Money at MoD</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Introduction

Being the Secretary of State for defence was always going to be one of the toughest jobs in the new Government. Defence was the worst in a grim set of inheritances. 

As the Chancellor said, Defence was the “most chaotic, most disorganised, most over-committed” budget he had seen. ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:24:09 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>F-35 Testimony to Canada's Commons</title>
			<description><![CDATA[In December, I was asked by the Standing Committee on National Defence in the Canadian House of Commons to testify on Canada's purchase of the F-35.  I was unable to appear in person but submitted - in early December - a written statement that I am now permitted to release.  

As a non-Canadian, I...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:18:50 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>India Not Satisfied with Pace of Modernization</title>
			<description><![CDATA[The Defence Minister Shri AK Antony has said that modernisation of the Armed Forces is the top priority of the Government. Delivering the inaugural address to the 5th International Conference on “Energising Indian Aerospace Industry: Achievements and Future Strategies,” here today Shri Antony said t...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:11:28 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>New HASC Chair: Reform, Don’t Cut, Defense</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Congressman Howard “Buck” McKeon, R-CA, the incoming chairman of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC), weighed in yesterday on the growing debate fueled by the president’s deficit commission regarding cuts in defense spending. In an editorial in USA Today, the Congressman declared that, “Cuttin...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 13:43:50 +0100</pubDate>
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