House of Commons - Intervention: Why, When and How?

Defence Committee - Fourteenth Report
Intervention: Why, When and How?

Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 8 April 2014.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Conclusions and recommendations

2 Strategic rationale for intervention

National Security Strategy and the UK's place in the world

Adaptable posture

The role of intervention

National Security Council

United Nations Charter and the legal debate

UK legal position

Responsibility to protect

The legal debate

Attorney General's legal advice on military action

Role of Parliament

Non-intervention

SDSR and the use of UK Armed Forces

3 Interventions: How?

Future Force 2020

Collaboration with Allies

New intervention capabilities

Other approaches to intervention

Strategic communication

Exit strategies and the end state

Learning lessons and looking ahead

4 Conclusions

Formal Minutes

List of written evidence

List of Reports from the Committee in Session 2013-14