Sitrep May 16th 2013

How longer tours of duty in theatre may be beneficial.
 
If the UK left the EU what impact would it have on defence?
 
Discover what it takes to be a great foreign secretary.
 
What’s behind the spy story in Moscow?
 
And a special report from Colorado Springs on the Warrior Games
 
 
PRESENTER: Kate Gerbeau
STUDIO GUEST: BFBS’s Defence Analyst Christopher Lee
 
OTHER INTERVIEWS: 
 
 Major General Patrick Sanders, the Assistant Chief of Defence Staff (Operations), talks about extended tours of duty
 
Alexander Nekrassov, former Kremlin advisor on spies.
Jonathan Powell, who was Tony Blair’s Chief of Staff, discussing foreign secretaries
The BBC’s political correspondent, Rob Watson on EU & defence
BFBS reporter Tim Cooper reporting from the Warrior Games in the US.
You can listen on BFBS Radio 2 at 1630 (UK time) and at 1830 (UK time) on BFBS (via webb, App & DAB in the UK and on FM in Scotland, Colchester, Salisbury Plain, Aldershot, Catterick & Blandford Forum)
 
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