Sober Assessment
Last night Sir Richard Mottram, the former Permanent Secretary, Security, Intelligence and Resilience at the Cabinet Office gave a lecture on Building a national security architecture for the twenty-first century. It was a sober assessment of the Government's achievements and an interesting insight into where ‘improvement’ is needed. You can read the speech here.
Two things that particularly stuck out were Richard's remarks about the threat from terrorism – at the strategic level the reality that al- Qaeda has made little or no progress in the pursuit of its fundamental aims and secondly on British foreign policy the perennial British dilemma - our moral aim to be a force for good around the globe while, at the same time, not aspiring to be a world policeman.
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