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Generation Why? Understanding the Armed Forces' role in modern society - New Date

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13 January 2010

An ippr security lecture with Bill Rammell MP, Minister of State for the Armed Forces, chaired by Lord George Robertson, former Secretary of State for Defence and former Secretary General of NATO.

10:30-11:30am
The Bhattacharryya Seminar Room
Institute for Public Policy Research
30-32 Southampton Street, London, WC2E 7RA

As a contribution to debate ahead of the formal Strategic Defence Review taking place next year, Bill Rammell MP, Minister of State for the Armed Forces, will speak at ippr and invite discussion. He will address the changes in modern society and how the UK’s Armed Forces have adapted in response. He will also discuss how issues such as Freedom of Information and 24 hour media impact on the use of armed force. In particular, he will talk about the need for the public to understand modern warfare if support for the cost and commitment of the UK’s forces is to be maintained.

This event is particularly timely in light of ongoing discussion regarding the current role and responsibilities of the Armed Forces. Building on the work of our Commission on National Security, ippr is now undertaking work on the relationship between army, nation and state to be published in a report on the Modern Military Covenant in 2010.

Speakers

Bill Rammell MP was appointed Minister of State for the Armed Forces on 8th June 2009.

Bill has been Member of Parliament for Harlow since 1997. He was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Tessa Jowell in June 2001, and promoted to Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Foreign Office in October 2002.

Bill also served on the Education and Employment Committee in 2000 and was a member of a Select Committee on European Scrutiny in 2001.

He was appointed Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in October 2008 where his responsibilities included the Middle East (including Iraq and Iran), Counter Terrorism, Counter Proliferation, the Far East and South East Asia, North America, Drugs and International Crime, Migration Policy, and Leads on Afghanistan, South Asia and UN in Commons.

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