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‘Hard decisions are going to have to be made’: can vital defence procurements survive in a post-pandemic world?

'When you are trying to fix a fiscal problem, inevitably national defence is part of the way governments have tended to try and fix that,' says defence procurement expert David Perry.

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BY NEIL MOSS
May 13, 2020

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‘Hard decisions are going to have to be made’: can vital defence procurements survive in a post-pandemic world?

'When you are trying to fix a fiscal problem, inevitably national defence is part of the way governments have tended to try and fix that,' says defence procurement expert David Perry.

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