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DEFENSE ANALYSIS SYNOPSIS:

This month’s Defense Analysis provides a hard look at budget realities and industrial dynamics. It also examines Iranian options and their implications.

The February edition starts with a look at where UK defense policy is evolving. How transparent is the UK defense budget and the choices that are being made?

And a pressing problem may seek clarification for what the UK is prepared and able to do. What is the UK contingency planning for Iran? To give flavor for the analysis:

"It is not an option for the UK to take a small role (in an Iranian operation);
Supporting Gulf states is an act of necessity, not one of choice – Afghanistan is an operation of choice; Standing back when Gulf states' interests were being threatened would have catastrophic implications for the UK’s longer term interests…." Francis Tusa goes on to provide an insightful look at what the UK’s real options are in the coming Iranian crisis.

The edition provides a unique European look at the US budget, which provides a useful corrective to the Inside the Beltway myopia. From a European perspective, what do the US budget choices look like in the period ahead? A detailed look at the trends by Francis Tusa provides an important perspective on the way ahead in the US. He then follows his analysis with a look at the industrial implications for the major US firms in the US marketplace.

Tusa also provides a look at the state of BAE systems in the current budgetary and policy dynamics.

Will the United Kingdom remain so? If the pressure for Scottish independence accelerates, what would be the implications for the UK Armed forces? Who would get what and with what consequences?