1、2025/6/10 03:36The Strategic Defence Review and the Challenge of Turning Ambition into Action|Royal United Services Institutehttps:/www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/strategic-defence-review-and-challenge-turning-ambition-action1/9COMMENTARYThe Strategic Defence Review and th
2、e Challengeof Turning Ambition into ActionMatthew Savill9 June 202510 Minute ReadThe Strategic Defence Review is clear the UK is not ready formodern warfare and sets an ambitious plan to reform UKDefence.Questions of a?ordability aside,a lack of hard targetsleaves the MOD work to do.Scrutiny and cla
3、rity are needed forsuccess.When the Strategic Defence Review(SDR)landed on desks with a thud(forthose who had a paper copy)on 2 June,more than 300 days a?er it wascommissioned,it brought to an end several months of leaks and speculationon the future direction of the UKs Armed Forces.The SDR is a he?
4、ydocument,one of the longest of its kind in recent UK history.It will takesome time for the implications of its many recommendations to becomeclear and this article doesnt propose covering every one of the 62recommendations it contains but some headlines on the core subject of theUKs military capaci