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Sitrep 5th January 2012

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Sitrep 5th January 2012

Released:05 Jan 2012

The Strategic Defence Review recommends that the future British Army will be supplemented by the TA but is it too much to ask of the reserve forces?

The US Forces brace themselves for their Defence Review but what will it mean for relations with Europe, and the UK’s 'special' relationship?

Why the Taliban are planning to open an office in Quatar.

Is Iran upping the ante with its warning to America not to send its carriers back to the Persian gulf

And we hear how the huge advances in medical science on the front-line are saving more lives than ever before

PRESENTER: Kate Gerbau

STUDIO GUESTS: BFBS’s defence analyst, Christopher Lee

Interviews with:

Col Richard Williams former commanding officer of 22 SAS, and contributor to the Future Reserves 2020 report, the review of the Reserve Forces.

Capt Doug Beattie, former soldier now in the Territorial Army

BFN's James Hirst on the US Defence Review

Professor Porter on advances in trauma care

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Does the White House really know where it’s going in the Middle east? Could we really be heading for a war with North Korea? Does Israel really think war with Iran is inevitable? And do we really need a 65th anniversary D-Day bash - or is it all cynical politics? Find out in this week's Sitrep with Christopher Lee and guests

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British troops have pulled out of Iraq. Was it all worth it? And after Iraq, what does the rest of the world think of us? Aliens from a colonial time machine? American poodles? Or...the professionals who got it right and didn't outstay their welcome? How others see us ... And would we do it ever again? That's this week's special edition of Sitrep with Christopher Lee and guests.

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In today’s Sitrep..... dozens killed & wounded in Baghdad bombings – but does the great British public care anymore? Why has President Obama fallen into the torture chamber of US politics? Did MI5 cock-up or simply fail to cope over the July 2005 `London bombings? Why do governments slag off the Israelis over the failure of any movement in the Middle East peace process? The answers in Sitrep with Christopher Lee and guests.

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Why does the MoD have such problem with its equipment; do warriors get enough exercise; why the government won’t allow Iraqi interpreters into the UK; the real reason why Washington has sacked the ISAF general; the real reason why Pakistan is at long last facing up to Taliban; why the UN is front-runner for the 2009 Really Useless award; And piracy – how is the ransom money handed over, by whom and to whom? Oh, and do you know why sailors say aye aye....?

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This week's programme looks at the future of Devonport Naval Base, as well as the growing crisis in the border regions of Pakistan...

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Iraq dominates this week, but Christopher Lee and guests also look at Britain's new policy on Afghanistan and Pakistan...

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