NATO, defence
US, NATO and UK Defence Relations examined with academics
10 March 2017
The Defence Committee hold its first oral evidence session for the Committee’s inquiry into defence relations.
- Watch Parliament TV: The Indispensable Ally? US, NATO and UK Defence Relations
- Inquiry: The Indispensable Ally? US, NATO and UK Defence Relations
- Defence Committee
Witnesses
Tuesday 14 March 2017, The Wilson Room, Portcullis House
At 11.30am
- Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, King’s College London
- Frank Miller, Principal at the Scowcroft Group
- Professor Phillips O’Brien, University of St Andrews
Purpose of the session
The committee will seek to determine what US, UK and NATO military resources are currently available to European Defence and how these may change post-Brexit and throughout the new US administration. It will also look to establish the extent to which the UK and continental Europe are reliant upon NATO and the US in deterring and potentially responding to Russian aggression.
Other questions the Committee may look to address are:
- Does NATO devote sufficient attention to the threat from international terrorism?
- With the new administration in Washington, is there potential for strengthening the 'Special Relationship'?
- What form does the US-UK partnership currently take in the military arena?
- What does the UK offer the US that is not available elsewhere and vice-versa?
- What are the implications of the new US Administration's policies for UK major equipment programmes and the UK nuclear deterrent?