Defence
Found in 168 Collections and/or Records:
American meetings, 1988-01 - 1989-11
Army League, 1948-12 - 1951-01
Memoranda and comments on defence, particularly writing a pamphlet on Cold War defence, but also on Army requirements, German attitudes to rearmament and mountain warfare, from contributors including: Leo Amery; Lieutenant General Sir Wilfrid Lindsell; Reginald Paget; Major-General H L Davis; Basil Liddell Hart; Lieutenant General Sir Francis Tuker; Major John Fuller.
Army League, 1951-01 - 1951-11
Notes from meetings, cuttings and memoranda on Cold War defence, including papers and comments by Leo Amery, Basil Liddell Hart and Lieutenant-General Sir Wilfrid Lindsell on subjects including: a general policy for the Army; rearmament; a meeting with the Templer Committee on cuts to peace time establishments; the rearmament of Germany and Japan.
Army League, 1951-01 - 1954-07
Papers and cuttings on Cold War defence, including: notes from League meetings; notes from Basil Liddell Hart on subjects including Soviet forces in Europe and impressions from a tour of Europe; letter from Leo Amery to the Times on the unprepared state of Western Europe; Conservative Research Department memoranda on defence, particularly on Defence White Papers.
Army League, 1952-02 - 1952-12
Notes from meetings, cuttings and memoranda on defence, including papers and comments by Leo Amery, Basil Liddell Hart and Lieutenant-General Sir Francis Tuker on subjects including:
new tactics for NATO; lessons from the Normandy campaign of 1944; a European Army; battles in North Africa.
Army League, 1953-03 - 1953-06
Minutes of meetings and papers, including: paper by JA on the Suez Canal Zone [Egypt], with notes from a discussion on the paper; comments by Sir Desmond Morton on an article by Basil Liddell Hart about Soviet military thinking; comments by Lieutenant-General Sir Francis Tuker on the defence estimates; an African Army; the balance between arms and numbers of troops.
Army League, 1954-11 - 1955-07
Army League: correspondence, 1950-02 - 1955-12
Army League: cuttings, pamphlets, 1944-12 - 1952-10
Army League: minutes, correspondence, reports, 1948-12 - 1953-07
Army League: press cuttings, 1954-05 - 1955-01
Press cuttings on defence in the nuclear era, including letters and articles from Basil Liddell Hart.
Army League: printed papers and pamphlets, 1946-07 - 1954-02
Defence estimates, Parliamentary publications and other published material on defence issues.
Army League: report, 1952-01 - 1952-11
Drafts of the report, "The Task of the British Army" [later entitled "The Army in the Nuclear Age"], with comments and minutes of a meeting on the report.
Army League: report, 1953-04 - 1954-08
Drafts of the League report on defence [later entitled "The Army in the Nuclear Age"].
Army League: report, 1954-06 - 1954-11
Drafts of the League report on defence [later entitled "The Army in the Nuclear Age"].
Army League: report, 1955-07 - 1955-10
Drafts and proofs of the League report , including correspondence on the printing and publication of the report, galley proofs and the final corrected copy.
Army League: reports, 1937-07 - 1955-11
Draft League report with slight annotations, also including copies of the original League report "A Policy for the Army" (1937) with associated press cuttings, "The Army in the Nuclear Age" (1955) and an issue of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association’s report on foreign affairs (1951).
Articles, 1933 - 1940
Articles and broadcasts , 1968 - 1977
Pamphlets, conference papers, articles and correspondence with historians on subjects including: the effect of the German-Soviet Treaty of 1970; Germany's Ostpolitik; Stalin; 20 years of NATO; the Anglo-Portuguese alliance; the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia; Britain's entry into the European Economic Community.
BBC Panorama: Labour Defence, 1987-06
NK interview rushes nos 28 and 29 on Labour’s position on defence, particularly nuclear weapons.
BBC Panorama: Labour Defence, 1987-06
NK interview rush no 30 on Labour’s position on defence, particularly nuclear weapons.
BBC Radio 2 Jimmy Young programme interview with Margaret Thatcher and BBC Radio 4 Analysis programme, "A Market for Security" , 1990-06
Includes: part of Jimmy Young's Interview with Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister, on subjects including: European political and monetary union; European free trade; the reunification of Germany; the Poll Tax; Labour's success in the polls.
Also includes BBC Radio 4 Analysis programme, "A Market for Security" on NATO and European defence issues.
BBC Radio 4, Today Programme: NK interview with John Humphries, 1987-10-02
Interview on the Party Conference, mainly on Labour's defence policy following arms reduction talks between the United States and Soviet Union, and also on issues with the extreme Left and a shareholding economy.