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The 1957 White Paper on Defence (Cmnd. 124) was a British white paper issued in March 1957 setting forth the perceived future of the British military. [1] It had profound effects on all aspects of the defence industry but probably the most affected was the British aircraft industry. Duncan Sandys, the recently appointed Minister of Defence ...
Edwin Duncan Sandys, Baron Duncan-Sandys, CH PC (/sændz/; 24 January 1908 – 26 November 1987) was a British politician and minister in successive Conservative governments in the 1950s and 1960s. He was the son-in-law of Sir Winston Churchill. Sandys, born 24 January 1908 Manor House, Sandford Orcas, Dorset, was the son of George John Sandys, a Conservative member of parliament (1910–1918 ...
That the 1957 Defence White Paper represented not some new strategic departure but rather a reaffirmation of existing trends well established in British defence policy has been the underlying theme of most analyses of this document. 1 Yet, at the same time, it is clear that between January and April 1957, the new Minister of Defence, Duncan Sandys, brought about a revolution in British force ...
Duncan Edwin Duncan-Sandys, Baron Duncan-Sandys CH, PC (/sændz/; 24 January 1908 – 26 November 1987), was a British politician and minister in successive Conservative governments in the 1950s and 1960s.
Duncan Sandys, the tough-talking 'hatchet man', had been an ideal agent for this process of change. In 1945 there was nothing new about the concept of deterrence; only the size of the weapons and the speed of reaction had changed to make the price of failure near-instantly and globally catastrophic.
26 de ago. de 2022 · Anglo-Malayan defence agreement. On 20 August 1957, Duncan Sandys, the British Minister of Defence, while in Canberra at the start of a tour of Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and South East Asia, discovered the perils of the unscripted news conference. Sandys had hoped to use the tour to explain some of the recent changes to British defence ...
5 de dic. de 2008 · Long understood as the key document in Britain's Cold War history, the Duncan Sandys Defence White Paper of 1957 nevertheless has a largely forgotten context: home defence. This article argues that understanding this context allows important new conclusions to be drawn concerning the drafting, presentation and the reception of the document and the deterrent strategy it expounded.
