June 3, 2025
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The Strategic Defence Review – setting out a path for the next decade and beyond to transform Defence – has been published.
The Strategic Defence Review (SDR) signifies a landmark shift in deterrence and defence: moving to warfighting readiness to deter threats and strengthen security in the Euro-Atlantic.
The SDR’s vision for UK Defence:
- Move to warfighting readiness — establishing a more lethal ‘integrated force’ equipped for the future, and strengthened homeland defence.
- Engine for growth — driving jobs and prosperity through a new partnership with industry, radical procurement reforms and backing UK businesses.
- ‘NATO first’ — stepping up on European security by leading in NATO, with strengthened nuclear, new tech and updated conventional capabilities.
- UK innovation driven by lessons from Ukraine — harnessing drones, data and digital warfare to make our Armed Forces stronger and safer.
- Whole-of-society approach — widening participation in national resilience, and renewing the Nation’s contract with those who serve.
Both the full review and a two-page document outlining the key announcements can be read and downloaded here:
The Strategic Defence Review 2025 – Making Britain Safer: secure at home, strong abroad.
