decision-making, defence policy, deployment, forces
Decision-making in defence policy evidence session
12 December 2014
This is the first session for this inquiry. Discussion will focus on decision-making surrounding the deployment of British forces into Helmand and subsequently, Northern Helmand, in 2006.
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- Inquiry: Decision-making in defence policy
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Witnesses
Tuesday 16 December 2014, Committee Room 15, Palace of Westminster
At 10.00am
- Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, former HM Ambassador to Kabul, and former Special Representative to the Foreign Secretary for Afghanistan and Pakistan
At 10.45 am
- Brigadier (Retired) Ed Butler
At 11.30 am
- Lieutenant General (Retired) Sir Robert Fry
- Mr Desmond Bowen, former Director General of Policy, Ministry of Defence