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Defence in the World

I am glad my hon. Friend says so. Dr. Kilcullen continues:""Building such a capability is perhaps the most important of our many capability challenges in this new era of hybrid warfare."" It has been difficult for colleagues to get to grips with a subject as broadly defined as defence in the world. I entirely agree with the suggestion by my hon. Friend the Member for North Essex (Mr. Jenkin) that such debates are too broad in nature. My view is that the older concept of the single-service debate concentrated the minds of hon. Members, and concentrated the subject matter in the context of the various campaigns in which we were involved or likely to become involved.