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Strategic Defence and Security Review

My hon. Friend, who has served in Afghanistan and has expertise in bomb disposal—we should pay credit to him for that—makes a good point. The whole point of taking the reserves out of the review and of having a separate, longer and more thoughtful look is precisely to answer the sort of question that he puts. When it comes to what is called ““hot stabilisation””, I think it is right to try to develop units where we bring the military and civilians together. Then, in that vital golden hour when we have gone into a community, we can start to get things done so that the population is on our side rather than against us. If we are to have more of what have been called ““wars among the people””, we must make sure that we are properly equipped to deal with them.