Income tax currently raises 11 per cent of national income. So this extra 1 per cent for defence could be financed by increasing income tax revenue by 10 per cent." ...

Old airframes do exist in stock, but bringing them back to operational condition and upgrading their systems to Tu-95MS or Tu-22M3 standard would be extremely expensive and take many years to start ...

Matthew Savill of the Royal United Services Institute think-tank, said: “Given the existing pressures in the budget, and the need to rebuild the foundations of defence, it’s very unlikely that the ...

Professor Malcolm Chalmers, deputy director general of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), warned that moving too rapidly to achieve the 3 per cent target -such as trying to achieve it during ...

Disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration following the dissolution of the PKK will be a process with no recent ...