Robin Ashby UK
Vita brevis, ars bellica longa
Robin Ashby established the U K Defence Forum in 1996 as a medium for politicians, academics and others to exchange information and opinions. It holds no corporate views of its own and has no advocacy role.
Robin Ashby is also the Secretary General of Eurodefense UK and Rapporteur for the Eurodefense Arctic ICE Observatory.
He commissions or curates or edits materials posted at www.defenceviewpoints.co.uk and at www.ukdf.org.uk and which are here archived for posterity. Many were originally published anonymously. He does not claim authorship. A complete list of contributors over the years can be found in the paper "U K Defence Forum - Directory". If you think you should be on it please email robin.ashby.ukdf@gmail.org
Gordon Rayner, Chief Reporter, Daily Telegraph, wrote on 27 Jan 2009:
Whether he is acting in his capacity as a lobbyist to the defence industry, or wearing another of his many hats as a champion of small investors, Robin Ashby rarely stays out of the headlines for long. Last year a national newspaper devoted its entire front page to pictures of him with Tony Blair, Des Browne, Alistair Campbell and other political figures.
Having set up the Northern Rock Small Shareholders' Association, Mr Ashby became a fixture on TV news channels during the bank's nationalization.
But it is in the world of defence that Mr Ashby spends most of his professional life. The son of a career RAF officer, Mr Ashby, 61, has said in the past that "I was brought up believing in the importance of the defence of the realm".
He represented the Swan Hunter shipyard, which he helped in its bid to win naval orders in 1986, then in the 1990s came one of his greatest coups when he helped the helicopter manufacturer GKN win a £2.5 billion order to supply Apache choppers to the Army, beating off strong competition from BAE and GEC-Marconi.
"Mr Ashby, who lives in the upmarket Newcastle suburb of Gosforth, is also founder and head of the UK Defence Forum, a group which organises meetings between key players in the defence industry, and runs a company called Great North News Service, publishing subscription-only periodicals on the defence industry, parliament and Europe" - Daily Telegraph
Address: Newcastle upon Tyne and London, UK
Robin Ashby established the U K Defence Forum in 1996 as a medium for politicians, academics and others to exchange information and opinions. It holds no corporate views of its own and has no advocacy role.
Robin Ashby is also the Secretary General of Eurodefense UK and Rapporteur for the Eurodefense Arctic ICE Observatory.
He commissions or curates or edits materials posted at www.defenceviewpoints.co.uk and at www.ukdf.org.uk and which are here archived for posterity. Many were originally published anonymously. He does not claim authorship. A complete list of contributors over the years can be found in the paper "U K Defence Forum - Directory". If you think you should be on it please email robin.ashby.ukdf@gmail.org
Gordon Rayner, Chief Reporter, Daily Telegraph, wrote on 27 Jan 2009:
Whether he is acting in his capacity as a lobbyist to the defence industry, or wearing another of his many hats as a champion of small investors, Robin Ashby rarely stays out of the headlines for long. Last year a national newspaper devoted its entire front page to pictures of him with Tony Blair, Des Browne, Alistair Campbell and other political figures.
Having set up the Northern Rock Small Shareholders' Association, Mr Ashby became a fixture on TV news channels during the bank's nationalization.
But it is in the world of defence that Mr Ashby spends most of his professional life. The son of a career RAF officer, Mr Ashby, 61, has said in the past that "I was brought up believing in the importance of the defence of the realm".
He represented the Swan Hunter shipyard, which he helped in its bid to win naval orders in 1986, then in the 1990s came one of his greatest coups when he helped the helicopter manufacturer GKN win a £2.5 billion order to supply Apache choppers to the Army, beating off strong competition from BAE and GEC-Marconi.
"Mr Ashby, who lives in the upmarket Newcastle suburb of Gosforth, is also founder and head of the UK Defence Forum, a group which organises meetings between key players in the defence industry, and runs a company called Great North News Service, publishing subscription-only periodicals on the defence industry, parliament and Europe" - Daily Telegraph
Address: Newcastle upon Tyne and London, UK
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After China's successful "coup d'état" against Hong Kong is Taiwan next? And if Beijing decides to invade Taiwan, what options are available to the U.S. to defend Taiwan and defeat China?
China's objectives are:
• First, control the South China Sea-its airspace, waters, resources, shipping lanes, and chokepoints-and neighbouring countries become client states.
• Second, control the South China Sea so power-military, political, economic-can be projected into the Indo-Pacific region. Beijing's strategy is to break Washington's three island chains preventing China from establishing a presence in the Pacific. It is doing so by gaining political influence and economic leverage in the island states of Melanesia, Polynesia, and Micronesia.
Contents 1. The EU's current policy 2. Russia's position 3. Ukraine's 10 point peace plan 4. The Minsk agreements 5. Principles for a new EU-Russia strategy
Robin Ashby met Rep Skelton during UK Defence Forum visits with UK Members of Parliament
⦁ Origins
⦁ Network and internal organization
⦁ Global operations
Part II: Wagnerism: Countering long term threats to Western interests in the Global South overview
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Russian infrastructure has been taking a pounding from precision munitions, according to Ukraine claims. A team of U K Defence Forum associates has been trying to assess how credible these claims are.
BRICS Summit at Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg. In recent times, more countries have become interested in joining the group. In this introduction, Professor Muresan outlines the challenges, opportunities and possibilities for this growing international network.
Just when some West African states are uncomfortable with the presence of Wagner forces in Mali and most likely, Burkina Faso, the group has become a "major" player in the current crisis. It's also active in some Sudan's neighbouring states such as the Central African Republic and Libya.