Sitrep September 24th 2015

 

SITREP TRAIL THURS, 24th September

 

Find out what needs to happen in the next Defence Review to make our Forces more efficient.

 

America and Russia go head to head on what happens next in Syria,

 

Plus, British troops teaching the Kurds how to beat IS and get streetwise,

 

And 75 years of the George Cross - the people's decoration.

 

 
PRESENTER THIS WEEK: Kate Gerbeau
STUDIO GUEST: BFBS defence analyst Christopher Lee
OTHER INTERVIEWS: 

 

DEFENCE POLICY
Richard Norton Taylor who writes for The Guardian on defence and security,

 

SYRIA/PUTIN/UN
Professor Joshua Landis from the Department of Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma

 

PESHMERGA
BFBS presenter Charlene Guy speaking to some of the soldiers who have been working on the ground in Iraq, training Kurdish Peshmerga fighters.

 

GEORGE CROSS 75TH ANNIVERSARY
BFBS reporter Claire Sadler

 

THURSDAYS at 4:30pm UK TIME on BFBS RADIO 2 and at 6:30pm UK TIME on BFBS & UK Bases

 

You can listen on BFBS Radio 2 at 1630 (UK time) and at 1830 (UK time) on BFBS (via web, App & DAB in the UK and on FM in Scotland, Colchester, Salisbury Plain, Aldershot, Catterick & Blandford Forum)
Sky Channel 0211
Alternatively listen again on the website, or download the Sitrep Podcast.