Source · Select Committees · Defence Committee
Recommendation 63
63
Not Addressed
Strategic Command maintains constant readiness but raises concerns about war-fighting medical cover.
Conclusion
He acknowledged the difficulty of talking about readiness in relation to Strategic Command given that “a lot of my organisation operates at readiness all the time, and readiness does not apply to quite a lot of my organisation”. He cited the nature of “constant engagement” in the work of PJHQ; Defence Intelligence; Special Forces and defensive cyber operators. However, he also acknowledged that there were weaknesses, for example he had “concerns over our ability to provide the scale of medical cover that we are going to need in the context of a war-fighting operation”.126
Government response summary AI-generated
The government discusses the Defence Command Paper 2023's aims for modernising and mobilising conventional forces, enhancing lethality, and rebalancing investment in capabilities’ availability and sustainment, but does not specifically address concerns about the scale of medical cover needed for war-fighting operations.
Government Response
The government responded to this report on 25 April 2024. No passage in that response could be matched to this conclusion. Read the response document ↗