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• John Crace’s sketch: scary times for the Russian submarine as the Commons harks back to Trafalgar

  20 Oct 2014: The defence secretary must pretend the world depends on British armed services – until Julian Brazier ruins the illusion

• Nuclear weapons deal with US renewed in secret, UK confirms

  20 Oct 2014:

  • UK tables amendments to Mutual Defence Agreement
  • Proper scrutiny and Commons debate needed

• UK to send armed drones to assist campaign against Isis

  16 Oct 2014: Foreign secretary says drones will carry out surveillance over Iraq, and defence secretary says they will add to strike capability

• Putin's Russia is weak - the UK in many ways is stronger

  13 Oct 2014:

  • Plea to put Ukraine crisis in perspective
  • Western commentators guilty of exaggeration
  • Russian economy in deep trouble

• The strange case of Moazzam Begg

  7 Oct 2014:

  Moazzam Begg, a British citizen was incarcerated in Bagram jail in Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay for three years before he was released without charge in 2005. He was arrested earlier this year and held at Belmarsh high security prison in south London

• German military faces a major challenge from disrepair

  7 Oct 2014: Leaked parliamentary report details the shocking state of European nation’s military hardware

• Isis, Iraq and terrorism laws — Australian national security interactive timeline

  6 Oct 2014: We’ve collated all the major events, government announcements and legislation into this interactive timeline

• Despite new threat, UK armed forces heading for spending crisis

  6 Oct 2014:

  • Serious implications for British forces if Isis is long-term enemy

• Former UK armed forces chief calls for ‘western boots on the ground’ in Iraq

  5 Oct 2014: General Sir David Richards says air power alone will not defeat Isis militants and ground operation is needed

• Alan Henning’s family ‘numb with grief’

  4 Oct 2014: Barbara Henning and children release statement as brother-in-law says government did not do enough to free aid worker

• Alan Henning murder: David Cameron vows to defeat Isis

  4 Oct 2014: Prime minister condemns beheading of British aid worker as ‘absolutely appalling’ and ‘completely unforgivable’

• RAF Tornados expected to be saved from axe for Iraq bombing campaign

  1 Oct 2014: Squadron of ageing aircraft were due to be decommissioned as part of defence cuts

• MoD awards £3.2bn in contracts for UK’s naval bases and Royal Navy fleet

  1 Oct 2014: Deals said to secure 1,500 jobs at Faslane on the Clyde, up to 4,000 at Devonport and more than 2,000 at Portsmouth

• Bombing Isis will be futile – and expensive

  30 Sep 2014: Richard Norton-Taylor: Air strikes have not worked in previous conflicts as pilots quickly run out of targets. It will be the same this time round in Iraq

• Isis and Ukip: WB Yeats re-imagined

  Cartoon, 28 Sep 2014:

  Chris Riddell on the Commons vote on Isis and the Ukip conference

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