The defence review

Abstract

THE authoritative leak which is today used so frequently to lessen the impact and perhaps the resistance to new statements of policy was part of the prelude to the publication of the Defence White Paper. This, together with the resignation of Mr Christopher Mayhew, the Navy Minister, three days before the publication date, meant that the main decisions—briefly, fifty F‐111A aircraft for the R.A.F., no new carriers for the Navy, a cut in the naval Phantom order, and continued support for the Anglo‐French variable geometry aircraft due to enter service in 1975—were all common knowledge beforehand and the White Paper was a mere confirmation of the expected.

Citation

(1966), "The defence review", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 38 No. 3, pp. 7-7. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb034130