PART I: HOW DID BRITAIN’S DEFENCE PROCUREMENT GET INTO THIS MESS?
1. Military Power, Weapons Procurement and Britain’s Standing in the World
2. British Defence Procurement in an ‘Age of Uncertainty’ PART II: THE CASE STUDIES – THE ROYAL NAVY AND THE MARITIME DOMAIN
3. The Procurement Challenge Across all Services and Domains
4. Developing the Type-45 destroyer
5. Carrier Strike and the Future Carrier-Borne Aircraft
6. The Astute-class Hunter-Killer submarine PART III: THE CASE STUDIES – THE ROYAL AIR FORCE AND THE AIR DOMAIN
7. The Joint Strike Fighter
8. The Eurofighter/Typhoon and BVRAAM: A Legacy of the Cold War?
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10. The Watchkeeper and UK Airborne Early Warning: from E-3D Sentry to E-7A Wedgetail
11. Air Mobility and the ‘Virtual Reality’ Planes: The A400M and FTSA PART IV: THE CASE STUDIES – THE BRITISH ARMY AND THE LAND DOMAIN
12. Army Procurement: Boots, the SA80 and Bowman
13. Ajax and the Decline of Britain’s Armoured Vehicle Fleet PART V: WHAT WENT WRONG?
14. The MoD, the Treasury and Funding Defence Procurement
15. New Burdens on the UK Procurement Budget
16. Reforming Structure and Personnel at the DE&S
17. Tackling Some Obstacles to Better Procurement
18. Culture Change and the Critical Role of Leadership PART VI: CONCLUSION
19. Where Does All This Take Us?
20. British Defence Procurement into the Future Appendix 1: Secretaries of State for Defence since 1964 Appendix 2: Chiefs of Defence Procurement since 1971