Sitrep July 11th 2013

What impact are events in Egypt and Syria having on the Middle East?
 
A study says the Taliban’s planning to re-take Helmand. – but how are they going to do it?
 
And how many troops will the US leave in Afghanistan  post 2014
 
Plus: will Trident be homeless?
 
And the new Chief of the Defence Staff – find out what happens in his first few days.
 



PRESENTER: Kate Gerbeau
STUDIO GUEST: BFBS’s Defence Analyst Christopher Lee
 
 
OTHER INTERVIEWS: 
 
Professor Michael Clarke, director of the RUSI, the Royal United Services Institute
 
Professor Theo Farrell is Head of the Department of War Studies at King's College London
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