Includes MT's correspondence with Air Vice Marshal Sir Edward Chilton, Brian Crozier, and George Younger MP
Also includes a briefing note for MT on "BAOR offset arrangements", by Peter Joynes (Conservative Research Department), January 1977; and other CRD briefings on: the Government's statement on the defence estimates for 1976, March 1976; the Parliamentary defence debate on 12 January 1977, January 1977; the Government's statement on the defence estimates for 1977, March 1977; and armed forces pay, June 1977
Also includes a copy of a booklet by Geoffrey Pattie MP, "Towards a new defence policy" (Conservative Political Centre, ca. 1976)
Also includes reprint of a U.S. radio programme, "National security", by Ronald Reagan, 1977