reserves
Expand our army reserves to see off the threat from China and Russia
As published in the Telegraph With Europe’s first major war since 1945, chaos and instability in the Middle East, and China’s increasing belligerent behaviour in the Far East, the world is looking progressively more unstable. Several generals, the head of MI6, and many of our allies believe that the West faces its most dangerous threats […]
David Davis MP writes for the Times on building up the Army Reserves
As published in the Times British defence policy is in a bind. We are threatened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the deteriorating situation in the Middle East and China’s belligerent behaviour towards Taiwan. Against this we have a military force that isn’t capable of stopping a Russian armoured juggernaut rolling over the plains of central […]
David Davis MP writes for the Telegraph on the need to expand the Army Reserve
As published in the Telegraph. A few weeks ago, listening to the Today programme, I suddenly felt that never in my adult life had World War Three seemed so close. As a young reservist, I returned from a parachute training jump to observe, on a black and white television, Russian tanks driving through Prague during […]