The following witnesses gave evidence. Transcripts can be viewed on the inquiry publications page of the Committee’s website.
Rt Hon Michael Fallon MP, Secretary of State for Defence, Lieutenant General Gordon Messenger CB DSO*OBE, Deputy Chief of Defence Staff (Military Strategy and Operations), Air Marshal Stephen Hillier KCB CBE DFC RAF, Deputy Chief of Defence Staff (Capability), and Peter Watkins CBE, Director General for Security Policy |
Dr Afzal Ashraf, Consultant Fellow, Royal United Services Institute, and Major General (Retired) Jonathan Shaw CB CBE |
Tom Hardie-Forsyth, adviser to the Kurdistan Regional Government |
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Peter Ford, former Ambassador to Syria |
Lieutenant General (Retired) Sir Simon Mayall KBE CB |
General (Retired) Jack Keane, Chairman of the Board, Institute for the Study of War, and Dr Frederick Kagan, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute |
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Michael Eisenstadt, Senior Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and Charles Lister, Fellow, Middle East Institute |
Dr Lina Khatib, Senior Research Associate, Arab Reform Initiative, Dr Neil Quilliam, Acting Head, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House, and Colonel (Retired) Hamish de Bretton-Gordon OBE |
Richard Atwood, Director of Multilateral Affairs and Head of New York Office, International Crisis Group, and Claudia Gazzini, Senior Analyst, ICG |
Patrick Cockburn, The Independent, Tim Marshall, The What and The Why, and Anthony Loyd, The Times |
Rt Hon Michael Fallon MP, Secretary of State for Defence, Lieutenant General Mark Carleton-Smith CBE, Deputy Chief of Defence Staff (Military Strategy and Operations) and Dominic Wilson, Director of Operational Policy, Ministry of Defence |
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16 September 2016