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UK defense analyst Peter Storey on why Britain has thus far decided to stay out of Syria despite the US stepping up its campaign against ISIS there and what it could mean for the "Special Relationship."

Peter Storey asserts that the British Government's pledge to meet the 2% defense spending target is only the first hurdle in combating issues in Britain's defense policy in the era of austerity.

British defense and political analyst Peter Storey on the role defense and foreign policy played in last week's UK general election, namely the elephant that wasn't even in the room.

Seapower Professor John Kuehn on how the "special relationship" between Britain and America may mean U.S. Marine Corps F-35s flying from a Royal Navy aircraft carrier.

Huw Bennett, author of 'Fighting the Mau Mau', talks about the British COIN experience in 1950s Kenya and being called as a historian and expert witness in the landmark legal case brought by Mau Mau victims against the UK government.

In an interview on his detailed new book, The Sword and the Shield, Kristan Stoddart talks about the U.S., Britain, and NATO nuclear policy and cooperation and how cyberwarfare may be the new Cold War.

John Wood argues looking at the "criminalization" of IRA terrorist violence during The Troubles may shed new light on COIN tactics in ethnic and sectarian conflicts in the 21st century.

COIN theorists tend to hold up the British as exemplar counterinsurgents because of their successful operation in Malaya. But Peter Storey writes that operations in Ireland from 1916 to 1921 should receive greater attention from military historians.