Caz
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 Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 11:31 pm Post subject: Chris Coverdale of 'Make Wars History' |
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Chris Coverdale, Intelligence Agent?
Chris Coverdale (Make Wars History) has unfortunately forgotten to mention that he also submits documents to the Institute for Public Policy Research, quoted on the website 'Think Defense', which advertises Raytheon and side-winder missiles (amongst other rather unsavoury things) on their website. This may explain why he is now complicit in the destruction of Brian Haw's anti-war campaign at Parliament Square.
| Quote: | | The recently published document by the Institute for Public Policy Research is a weighty and wide ranging research paper, the last in a series; that presents an independent national security strategy for the UK. |
http://www.thinkdefence.co.uk/2009/07/shared-responsibilities-a-nation al-strategy-for-the-united-kingdom-our-analysis-part-1/
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Shared Responsibilities (A National Strategy for the United Kingdom)
Posted by Think Defence in Think Tanks on July 2, 2009
The recently published document by the Institute for Public Policy Research is a weighty and wide ranging research paper, the last in a series; that presents an independent national security strategy for the UK.
In presenting the paper the Institute and publishing committee aims to look holistically at the issue of national security, encompassing not only defence but intelligence, social cohesion and societal resilience, in this its aims are entirely laudable, sensible and logical. The paper has been created by a committee of senior figures within the defence, academic, political, business and intelligence community. By making the committee so wide ranging its aim was no doubt to achieve a balanced position but as with any such endeavour there many a ‘former’
Out of the 13 members of the committee over half have the word former in their descriptions. This is not highlighted as a necessarily bad thing but to illustrate that there are some that are not ‘current’
The members of the committee were
* Lord Paddy Ashdown, Co-Chair, former leader of the Liberal Democrat Party and former High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Lord George Robertson, Co-Chair, former Secretary of State for Defence and former Secretary General of NATO
* Dr Ian Kearns, Deputy Chair, IPPR
* Sir Jeremy Greenstock, Director of the Ditchley Foundation and former British Ambassador to the United Nations
* Sir David Omand, former Security and Intelligence Coordinator in the Cabinet Office and former Permanent Secretary in the Home Office
* General Lord Charles Guthrie, former Chief of the Defence Staff
* Professor Lord Martin Rees, President of the Royal Society and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.
* Sir Chris Fox, former Chief Constable of Northamptonshire and former President of the Association of Chief Police Officers
* Professor Michael Clarke, Director of the Royal United Services Institute and Professor of Defence Studies at King’s College London
* Professor Tariq Modood, Director of the University of Bristol Research Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship
* Constanze Stelzenmüller, Director of the Berlin office of the German Marshall Fund.
* Professor Jim Norton, Senior Policy Adviser, Institute of Directors and former Chief Executive of the Radio Communications Agency
* Ian Taylor MP, Chair of the Conservative Party Policy Task-force on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, Conservative MP for Esher and Walton and former minister for Science and Technology at the Department of Trade and Industry
Countering the perception of a lack of current experience is the extensive contributions from a significant number of individuals, listed here in full, received over a 2 year period;
* Adam Mallalieu, Director of Corporate Security, National Grid
* Admiral Lord Alan West, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Security and Counterterrorism
* Alex Evans, Fellow, the Center on International Cooperation (New York University)
* Ambassador Bob Barry, Senior Associate, Center for Strategic and International Studies
* Ambassador Rolf Ekéus, Chairman of the Governing Board, SIPRI and former High
* Amélie Gauthier, Researcher, Peace, Security and Human Rights, FRIDE
* Andreas Persbo, Arms Control and Disarmament Researcher (Nuclear), VERTIC
* Andrew Jackson, Director of Border and Visa Policy, UKBA
* Andrew Moran, Professor of International Relations, London Metropolitan University
* Andy Baker, Deputy Director of Intelligence, SOCA
* Andy Carl, Director, Conciliation Resources
* Angela Wilson, Cabinet Office
* Angela Woodward, Executive Director, VERTIC
* Ann Snow, Policy Advisor, Amnesty International UK
* Anna Murison, Head of Global Jihad Forecasting, Exclusive Analysis
* Asima Sheikh, Independent Researcher and Consultant, Community Cohesion & Conflict Resolution, NRA/LIA
* Babak Ganji, Consultant
* Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones, Shadow Security Minister and National Security Adviser to the Leader of the Opposition
* Baroness Sarah Ludford MEP, Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament and Liberal Democrat European justice spokeswoman
* Basia Spalek, Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Birmingham
* Ben Rhode, Research Analyst and Programme Coordinator, International Institute for Strategic Studies
* Bob Ainsworth MP, Minister of State for the Armed Forces
* Bob Keen, Head of Government Relations, BAE Systems
* Bruce Mann, Head of the Civil Contingencies Secretariat, Cabinet Office
* Carol Naughton, WMD Awareness Programme
* Carolyn Hayman, Chief Executive, Peace Direct
* Catherine Barnes, Consultant on Conflict Issues, Conciliation Resources
* Catherine Fieschi, Director, Counterpoint, British Council
* Celia McKeon, Director of Policy, Communications and Comparative Learning, Conciliation Resources
* Charles Farr, Director General, OSCT
* Charlie Edwards, Senior Researcher, Demos
* Chris Allan, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
* Chris Coverdale, Founder, Action Against War
* Chris Earnshaw, Deputy President, Institution of Engineering & Technology
* Chris Rampling, Deputy Head, Counter-Proliferation Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
* Christopher Beese, Chief Administrative Officer, Armorgroup
* Claire Hickson, Head of Advocacy and Communications, Saferworld
* Clare Algar, Executive Director, Reprieve
* Claude Boucher, Deputy High Commissioner to the UK and Former Canadian Ambassador to Haiti
* Claudia Seymour, Child Protection Adviser, UN Expert Group on the Democratic Republic of Congo
* Claudio Cordone, Senior Director for Research and Regional Programmes, Amnesty International
* Cleo Paskal, Associate Fellow, Energy, Environment and Development Programme, Chatham House
* Clive Stafford-Smith, Director, Reprieve
* Commissioner on National Minorities, OSCE
* Conor Gearty, Professor of Human Rights Law and Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, LSE
* DAC Cressida Dick, Deputy ACSO, MPS
* Dan Nelson, President of Global Concepts & Communications, LLC, and Senior
* Dan Smith, Secretary General, International Alert
* Daniel Korski, Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations
* Darryl Howlett, Senior Lecturer in the Division of Politics and International Relations, University of Southampton
* David Hendon, Head of Business Relations, BERR
* David Newton, Conflict Adviser, DfID
* David Williams, Director, Cohesion Directorate, DCLG
* DCI Andy Coles, Head of Training, ACPO TAM
* DCI Tony McCarthy, Detective Chief Inspector within Special Branch, Office of the National Co-ordinator Ports Policing
* DCS Andy Rintoul, Detective Chief Superintendent, HMIC
* Denis O’Connor, HMI, HMIC
* Detective Inspector Andy Slater, Staff Officer to ACSO, MPS
* Detective Inspector Steve Wilkinson, Head of Human Trafficking Unit, MPS
* Detective Superintendent Peter McGowan, Deputy National Coordinator of Ports Policing / Protect, ACPO
* Detective Superintendent Peter Wickstead, SO15, MPS
* Dieter Helm, Professor, Oxford University
* Dilwar Hussain, Head of Policy Research Centre, The Islamic Foundation
* Director, Centre for the Study of African Economies
* Doug Turner, BT Group Engineering Services, BT
* Ed Husain, Co-Director, Quilliam Foundation
* Edward Howker, Journalist, The Independent
* Elizabeth Stubbins-Bates, David Davies of Llandinam Research Fellow in International Relations, LSE
* Eric Joyce MP, Parliamentary Private Secretary, BERR
* Eric Metcalfe, Director of Human Rights Policy, JUSTICE
* Fellow, Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation
* Francesca Klug, Director, Human Rights Futures Project, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE
* Frank Barnaby, Emeritus Consultant, Oxford Research Group
* Frank Gardner, Security Correspondent, BBC
* Frank Gregory, Professor of European Security, the University of Southampton
* Gareth Evans, President, International Crisis Group
* Gary Hindle, Head of Security and Counter-Terrorism, RUSI
* Gemma Mortensen, UK Director, Crisis Action
* General Sir David Richards, Commander-in-Chief Land Forces
* General Sir Hugh Beach, Board of Directors, VERTIC
* General Sir Mike Jackson, former Chief of the General Staff
* General Sir Richard Dannatt, Chief of the General Staff
* Geoff Miller, Head of Risk Management, United Utilities
* Glenn Kelly, Counter Proliferation and Security Cooperation, Ministry of Defence
* Gordon Corera, Security Correspondent, BBC
* Guy Roberts, Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Weapons of Mass Destruction, NATO
* Hagai Segal, Lecturer, New York University in London
* Helen Lewis, Conflict Advisor, DfID
* Inspector Fiaz Choudhary, Chair of MPS Association of Muslim Police, MPS
* James Acton, Lecturer, Centre for Science and Security Studies, Department of War Studies, King’s College London
* James Cameron, NGOs and Humanitarian Department, Control Risks Group
* James Hart, Infinity Advisory Board Member and former Commissioner of the City of London Police
* James Leonard, Scientists Working Group on CBW of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
* James Mortimer, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
* James R. Wright, Canadian High Commissioner to the UK
* Jean-Roger Kaseki, human rights campaigner
* Jennifer Smith, Policy Analyst, CAFOD
* Jeremy Corbyn MP
* Jeremy Fleming, Head of Strategy, OSCT
* Jim Drummond, Director of the South-Asia Division, UK Department for International Development
* Joanna Kidd, Research Fellow, International Centre for Security Analysis, King’s College London
* John Almonds, Director of Security Operations, Infinity
* John Andrews, Ministry of Defence
* John Baylis, Pro-Vice Chancellor, Swansea University
* John Simpson, Mountbatten Centre for International Studies, University of Southampton
* John Tayor, Director General of Information, MoD
* Jonathan Cooper, Doughty Street Chambers
* Jonathan Githens-Mazer, Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics & Co-Director, Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies
* Jonathan Stern, Director of Gas Research, Oxford Institute of Energy Studies
* Julian Lindley French, Professor of Military Operational Science, Defence Academy of the Netherlands
* Karma Nabulsi, Lecturer in International Politics, Oxford University and former PLO representative
* Katharine Adeney, Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield
* Katherine Gregory, Project Leader, Per Capita
* Keith Weston, Deputy Director of the Resilience Centre, Cranfield University
* Ken De Souza, Policy Analyst, CHASE, DfID
* Ken Gude, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
* Kenneth Payne, Lecturer in Defence Studies, KCL
* Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch
* Kerry M. Kartchner, Senior Advisor for Strategic Planning, Bureau of International
* Kevin McDonald, Marie Curie International Fellow, University of London, Goldsmiths College
* Lemonia Tsaroucha, Lecturer on World Legal Orders, UCL
* Lin Homer, Chief Executive, UK Border Agency
* Liz Siberry, Director, CPNI
* Lord Alex Carlile, Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, House of Lords
* Lord Andrew Turnbull, former Head of the Civil Service
* Lord David Owen, former Member of the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict
* Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, Minister for Africa, Asia and the UN, FCO
* Lord Toby Harris, Home Secretary’s Appointee, MPA
* Lyndon Powell, Director of Human Continuity Operations, Infinity
* Lyse Doucet, News Correspondent and Presenter, BBC World News
* Maajid Nawaz, Co-Director, Quilliam Foundation
* Malcolm Chalmers, Professor of International Politics, University of Bradford
* Malcolm Savidge, BASIC board member
* Marian Fitzgerald, Visiting Professor of Criminology, University of Kent
* Mark Rodmell, Head of Aviation Facilitation, Department for Transport
* Mark Sedwill, International Director, UK Border Agency
* Mark Segal, Senior Conflict advisor, DfID
* Mark Smith, Programme Director, Wilton Park
* Martin Lynch, CEO, Infinity
* Mary Kaldor, Co-Director, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE
* Mary Shockledge, Head of the Conflict Prevention Team (ISD), FCO
* Matt Cavanagh, Prime Minister’s Policy Directorate, 10 Downing Street
* Mia Hakl-Law, Researcher to Edward Fitzgerald QC, Doughty Street Chambers
* Michael Dale, EDS
* Michael Rutter, Director of Energy Resilience, BERR
* Mick Jenkins, Infinity Operations Director and former counter-terrorist intelligence officer
* Mike Short, Vice President of Research and Development, O2
* Misha Glenny, freelance journalist and author
* Mohammad Mahroof, MCU – SO15, MPS
* Moty Cristal, former negotiations adviser to the Israeli Prime Minister and CEO, Nest Consulting
* Narcis Serra, former Minister of Defence and Vice-president of the Spanish Government
* Nathan Oley, Strategic Policy Adviser, APA
* Neil Davison, Senior Policy Adviser, Royal Society
* Nicholas Wheeler, Professor of International Politics, Aberystwyth University
* Nick Low, Head, Nuclear Issues Section, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
* Nick Ritchie, Post Doctoral Research Fellow in the Bradford Disarmament Research Centre, University of Bradford
* Nigel Inkster, Director of Transnational Threats and Political Risk, International Institute for Strategic Studies
* Norman Dombey, Emeritus Professor, University of Sussex
* Oliver McTernan, Co-founder and Director, Forward Thinking
* Ollie Welch, Ministry of Defence
* Owen Greene, Chair of the Management Board, Centre for International Co – Operation Security, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford
* Owen Pengelly, Head of the Central Sponsor for Information Assurance, Cabinet Office
* Parag Khanna, Senior Research Fellow, New America Foundation
* Patrick Lamb, Deputy Chief Executive, International Financial Services London
* Paul Bernstein, Vice President, Science Applications International Corporation
* Paul Collier, Professor of Economics, Oxford University Economics Department and
* Paul Cornish, Head, International Security Programme and Carrington Chair in International Security, Chatham House
* Paul Grasby, Head of Social and Behavioural Science Unit, OSCT
* Paul Ingram, Executive Director, BASIC
* Peter Ingram, Ofcom
* Peter Power, Managing Director, Visor Consultants (UK) Limited
* Phil Vernon, Director of Programs, Africa and Peacebuilding, International Alert
* Philippe Sands, Professor of Law, UCL
* Professor Antonio Jorge Ramalho da Rocha, Institute of International Relations, University of Brasilia
* Professor Colin McInnes, UNESCO Chair of HIV/AIDS, Education and Security and Director, Centre for Health and International Relations, Aberystwyth University
* Professor Paul Rogers, Professor of Peace Studies, University of Bradford
* Rachel Briggs, Senior Research Fellow, National Security and Resilience Department, Royal United Services Institute
* Regina Finn, CEO, OFWAT
* Revd Canon Flora Winfield, Churches Together in Britain and Ireland and World Conference on Religions for Peace
* Richard Dowden, Director, the Royal African Society
* Richard English, Professor of Politics, Queen’s University Belfast
* Richard Fletcher, Senior Policy Advisor, EADS
* Richard Norton-Taylor, Security Editor, The Guardian
* Robert Bonner, former first Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency
* Robert Chatterton-Dickson, Deputy Director – CT Policy, CT Department, FCO
* Robert Lambert, Research Fellow, Department of Politics, University of Exeter
* Robert Picciotto, Visiting Professor, King’s College London
* Robert Whalley, Consulting Senior Fellow, IISS
* Roger Styles, Deputy Director, Central Sponsor for Information Assurance, Cabinet Office
* Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP, Prime Minister
* Rt Hon Jacqui Smith MP, Home Secretary
* Rt Hon John Hutton MP, Secretary of State for Defence
* Rt Hon Nick Clegg MP, Leader of the Liberal Democrats
* Sally Benton, Corporate Information Officer, MPA
* Salman Shaikh, Special Representative to Europe, Muslim West Facts Project
* Sara MacNeice, Campaign Manager on terrorism, security and human rights, Amnesty International
* Security and Nonproliferation, US State Department
* Shami Chakrabarti, Director, Liberty
* Sheikh Aliur Rahman, Director, Consultancy, Double Barrel Design & Consultancy Ltd
* Shenaz Bunglawala, Project Officer, Engage
* Siddharth Ramana, Researcher, BASIC
* Sima Osdoby, Secretary of the Board, BASIC
* Sir Ian Blair, former Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
* Stephen Fidler, Defence and Security Editor, Financial Times
* Stephen Rimmer, Home Office
* Stephen Smith, Home Office
* Stewart Wood, Prime Minister’s Policy Directorate, No. 10
* Stuart Croft, Professor of International Security, Warwick University
* Sumit Rahman, Policy Advisor on Official Statistics, Economic and Domestic Affairs Secretariat, Cabinet Office
* Sunder Katwala, Chair, Fabian Society
* Superintendent Dal Babu, former Chair of the National Association of Muslim Police, MPS
* Susan Kincade, Senior Partner, Global Concepts and Communications, LLC
* Tara O’Toole, CEO and Director, Center for Biosecurity, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
* Terry Thompson, Booz&Co
* Thomas De Saint-Maurice, IDRC
* Tim Fox, United States Navy
* Tim Kellow, John Bright Peace & Security Programme Officer, UNA-UK
* Toby Fenwick, Birkbeck College
* Tom Daschle, US Senator
* Tom Porteous, London Director of Human Rights Watch
* Tony Payne, Professor, Department of Politics, Sheffield University
* Trevor McCrisken, Associate Professor in American Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick
* William Hughes, Director General, SOCA
* William Nye, Director, National Security Secretariat, Cabinet Office
* Willy Rickett, Director General, Energy, BERR
* Zachary Katznelson, Legal Director, Reprieve
* Zaiba Malik, Journalist
Defence is in fact represented by a single person on the main committee, excluding Lord Ashdown (a former marine) in the shape of General Lord Charles Guthrie, a former Chief of the Defence Staff.
There are no representatives of Royal Air Force or Royal Navy and whilst a former Chief of the Defence Staff would in fact have an overarching view of defence issues the report might have been less open to accusations of service bias if this were not so, especially given some of the recommendations suggest a land force element bias in future defence spending. The list of contributors also does not include anyone from the Royal Navy or Royal Air Force, there are 4 Generals, one Admiral (in an intelligence capacity) and even a representative from the US Navy. In fact, serving military personnel seem very poorly represented, being outnumbered by defence journalists and private security organisations.
In suggesting a change in defence funding priorities the headlines have inevitably focussed on the attention grabbing ‘huge cuts in defence’ angle, such is the superficial and nature of much of the defence and security news agenda in the mainstream media.
In a series of forthcoming blog posts on the document we will seek to analyse the findings and recommendations. At some 144 pages with several hundred bibliography items it will take some analysing! |
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interesting and shouldn't be so quickly shoved on the trash pile is all I'm saying 
