Ministers must get the Defence Investment Plan right
From our UK edition
The speech by Pete Hegseth, the US Defense Secretary, to Singapore's Shangri-La Dialogue was addressed to a Pacific audience. His sharpest messages, however, were for Europe, and especially for a British Government that still hasn't explained in practice how it plans to deliver the political commitments made a year ago in the Strategic Defence Review (SDR). Healey claimed that talking too much and delivering too little has now changed. The Defence Investment Plan is where that claim gets tested ‘Push-up Pete’ - who ostentatiously styles himself the Secretary of War - is a controversial figure. European governments have found it convenient to dismiss him. That is a mistake. Hegseth came to Singapore to unveil the US National Defense Strategy.
