House of Commons - Towards the next Defence and Security Review: Part Two-NATO

Defence Committee - Third Report
Towards the next Defence and Security Review: Part Two-NATO

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 22 July 2014.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Summary and recommendations

1 Introduction

2 Russian Forces

Russian conventional and nuclear forces

Weaknesses

Strengths

Russian Next Generation warfare

3 Russian Intentions

4 The UK and NATO's capacity to respond

The conventional military threat

The conventional vulnerabilities of the Baltic theatre

Constraints in UK/NATO conventional training, equipment and doctrine

Counter-insurgency versus State on State threats

Limited readiness levels and scale of deployable forces

Absence of large scale exercises and training

The need to rebalance

What NATO needs to do

The Next Generation Military threat

The vulnerabilities of the Baltic States to asymmetric warfare

Constraints in UK/NATO Next Generation training and doctrine

Weak Russian assessment capacity

5 Recommendations

Conclusions and recommendations

Formal Minutes

Witnesses

Published written evidence

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Session