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Grey Papers are generally a single-author's "expert opinion on a defence-related topic. Many of the papers listed below are available to view on-line - just click next to the paper of interest.

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The papers are listed in date descending order.

Section Library

Page Name	Summary
Grey paper - GR159D	The Trident Alternatives Study Strategic, Technical and Political Considerations ( December 2011)	view
Grey paper - GR 175	Crown Versus Parliament: Who Decides on Going to War? By James Gray MP (July 2003)	view
Grey paper GR 175 - a review	Crown Versus Parliament: Who Decides on Going to War? by James Gray - a review	view
Grey Paper - GR 174	Current developments in UAV technology - July 2008	view
Grey paper - GR 172	Birds nest soup - Alternatives to meet UK carrier-borne aviation requirements - April 2008	view
Grey Paper - GR 173	Energy security and the USA military - December 2007	view
Grey Paper - GR 168	Aspirations and feasibility: can Russia’s defence industrial base meet Moscow’s objective of re-armament by 2025? By Guy Anderson - October 2007	view
Grey Paper - GR 169	A letter from Beijing: a traveller’s impression of China as a force - October 2007	view
Grey Paper - GR 170	Changes in China’s defence industry By Matthew Smith - October 2007	view
Grey Paper - GR 171	China: Worrying the neighbours? - September 2007	view
Grey Paper - GR 167	The Holy Qur'an and Terrorism by Nicholas Appleby - July 2007	view
Grey Paper - GR 165	Mergers & acquisitions in the defence and aerospace industries: 2006 and the road ahead. By Guy Anderson - May 2007	view
Grey Paper - GR 166	General disarray - military leaders and civilian masters - February 2007	view
Grey Paper - GR 164	Procurement reform and the potential rebirth of India’s defence industry by Guy Anderson - February 2007	view
Grey Paper - GR 162	US sanctions against Russia -Tangible implications and international comparisons of moves to combat the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction. By Guy Anderson - January 2007	view
Grey Paper - GR 161	Private Security Companies - December 2006	view
Grey Paper - GR 159C	Trident replacement - questions for the uncommitted. By Jeffrey Bradford, Director of Research, UK Defence Forum - October 2006	view
Grey Paper - GR 160	European Aeronautics, Defence and Space (EADS): restructuring faces political pressures. By Guy Anderson - October 2006	view
Grey Paper - GR 159A	The case for replacing the UK deterrent By Julian Lewis MP, Shadow Defence Minister - October 2006	view
Grey Paper - GR 159B	Opposing a replacement of Trident. By Dr Kate Hudson, Chair, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament - October 2006	view
Grey Paper - GR 158	Progressing Alone? European defence manufacturers consider "non-US" variants to gain advantage in the world market - August 2006	view
Grey Paper - GR 156	Russia's Defence Industry. A new era of protectionism and nationalisation. - July 2006	view
Grey Paper - GR 157	National missile defence - Friend or foe? - July 2006	view
Grey Paper - GR 155	Trans-atlantic growth - Strategies of European countries looking to access the US Defense market, and potential obstacles - June 2006	view
Grey Paper - GR 154	The Human Impact of War by Donna Johnston MBACP - May 2006	view
Grey Paper - GR 153	Widening the Trans-Atlantic Gap? - The potential for a self-sufficient European defence industry, independent of the US. - March 2006	view
Grey Paper - GR 152	A strategy for coherent risk management - February 2006	view
Grey Paper - GR 151	The future: Space warfare? - September 2005	view
Grey Paper - GR 150	UN Reform - Annan's crowning achievement? - July 2005	view
Grey Paper - GR 149	Network enabled capability - an update - June 2005	view
Grey Paper - GR 148	After the Cold War and Beyond in Iraq: The US, European Union and NATO - June 2005	view
Grey Paper - GR 146	Where Is Putin taking Russia? - June 2005	view
Grey Paper - GR 147	The Neo Conservative Influence in Bush's Second Administration - June 2005	view
Grey Paper - GR 145	Post-war Iraq - A Failure of US Politico-Military Strategy? - May 2005	view
Grey Paper - GR 144	The Effects Based Approach to Conflict - April 2005	view
Grey Paper - GR 143	Future Conflict and Air Warfare - April 2005	view
Grey Paper - GR 142	Iran: Future Political Landscape - March 2005	view
Grey Paper - GR 141	MOD Research and Development - A look at the numbers - February 2005	view
Grey Paper - GR 140	Human and Technical Intelligence - Value for money? - November 2004	view
Grey Paper - GR 139	The New 30 Years War: Underlying Issues - September 2004	view
Grey Paper - GR 138	Iran on the Nuclear Threshold - September 2004	view
Grey Paper - GR 136	The Role Of Private Military Companies In Modern Warfare - September 2004	view
Grey Paper - GR 137	Non-Proliferation - lessons form Iran & N Korea - September 2004	view
Grey Paper - GR 135	Will China Be Resurgent? - September 2004	view
Grey Paper - GR 134	Who will win the US Presidential election? - August 2004	view
Grey Paper - GR133A	Defence Under President Kerry (appendices)	view
Grey Paper - GR 133	Defence Under President Kerry - August 2004	view
Grey Paper - GR 130	An Introduction To Network Enabled Concept By Paul Flusk - July 2004	view
Grey Paper - GR 132	Non-proliferation: current lessons from Iran and North Korea - July 2004	view
Grey Paper - GR 131	South Africa: ten years on - July 2004	view
Grey Paper - GR128	USAID in Liberia	view
Grey Paper - GR129	An assessment of NATO's command of ISAF operations in Afghanistan	view
Grey Paper - GR127	The Intervention in the Congo - Some lessons learned	view
Grey Paper - GR126	Happy Birthday! The Ministry Of Defence at 40	view
Grey Paper - GR124	Overstretch in the UK and US Armed Forces	view
Grey Paper - GR125	THE UK’s DEFENCE WHITE PAPER 2003 - A BUSINESS PERSPECTIVE	view
Grey Paper - GR123	Pirates - Terrorists in training?	view
Grey Paper - GR122	NATO expansion: Questions of interoperability and effectiveness	view
Grey Paper - GR121	Toward Pax Americana: The Pentagon’s new map. It explains why we’re going to war,and why we’ll keep going to war. By Thomas P.M. Barnett, U.S. Naval War College	view
Grey Paper - GR120	The return of overstretch	view
Grey Paper - GR118	Research & technology – continuing challenges	view
Grey Paper - GR119	Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Terrorism	view
Grey Paper - GR117	Towards Pax Americana: World Overview 2003	view
Grey Paper - GR112	United States nuclear strategic thinking in the 21st Century.	view
Grey Paper - GR113	A Marshall Plan for post Saddam Iraq?	view
Grey Paper - GR114	Towards Pax Americana: terrorist threats in Southeast Asia	view
Grey Paper - GR115	Towards Pax American: American energy requirements and the importance of securing West Africa	view
Grey Paper - GR116	Towards Pax Americana: Latin America: trouble in Washington’s backyard ?	view
Grey Paper - GR111	Turkey after the November 2002 elections	view
Grey Paper - GR108	French Defence Budget Law 2002 and its implications for European defence	view
Grey Paper - GR109	Thirty years on: reflections on CVA-01 versus TSR2	view
Grey Paper - GR110	A new Thirty Years War: Towards Pax Americana	view
Grey Paper - GR107	European defence spending: up to the job?	view
Grey Paper - GR106	A coalition of the willing for Iraq . . . and implications for ISAF in Kabul.	view
Grey Paper - GR105	Iraqi weapons of mass destruction	view
Grey Paper - GR104	Thinking the unthinkable: and independent Scotland Its impact on UK defence	view
Grey Paper - GR103	We can't "Go it alone" An American perspective of the British-American Alliance	view
Grey Paper - GR102	Airborne forces; light equals might?	view
Grey Paper - GR101	The US and Iraq :Prospects and Scenarios	view
Grey Paper - GR100	Warfighting vs Gendarmerie: Special Forces	view
Grey Paper - GR99	4th generation warfare - the challenge of asymmetric conflict	view
Grey Paper - GR97	Islamic terrorism: The Indonesian experience	view
Grey Paper - GR98	Reflections on digitization of the battlefield	view
Grey Paper - GR95	Thinking the unthinkable: Britain's future aircraft carrier	view
Grey Paper - GR96	Warfighting v Gendarmerie: the Swedish model	view
Grey Paper - GR93	The threat of chemical-biological terrorism -expect the unexpected	view
Grey Paper - GR94	How simple is simple - creating nuclear weapons	view
Grey Paper - GR92	Disability and the armed forces - recent moves	view
Grey Paper - GR91	A future for artillery	view
Grey Paper - GR90	Opening the French defence market - the perspecitve of an Anglophile Frenchman	view
Grey Paper - GR88	Montenegro and Balkan Security	view
Grey Paper - GR89	Strenthening the ties between Russia and Western European institutions	view
Grey Paper - GR87	Hezbollah and Hamas: A marriage made in Israel?	view
Grey Paper - GR86	Warfighting vs Gendarmerie: Inside Kosovo today	view
Grey Paper - GR85	Globalisation and the Defence Industry	view
Grey Paper - GR84	Ethnic minorities,and the British Armed Forces	view
Grey Paper - GR83	In Russia what's not a secret	view
Grey Paper - GR82	Warfighting v Gendarmerie Part II. Letter from Tuzla	view
Grey Paper - GR81	United States Foreign Policy: New President, New Era?	view
Grey Paper - GR80	Opening the US Defence Market	view
Grey Paper - GR79	The National Missile Defence Debate	view
Grey Paper - GR78	George Robertson's Agenda as NATO Secretary General (Part 1)	view
Grey Paper - GR77	Evolving Conservative defence policies – the people drivers	view
Grey Paper - GR76	The Changing Face of the Bundeswehr	view
Grey Paper - GR75	Conservative Defence & Security Policy - an appreciation	view
Grey Paper - GR74	Some thoughts on 21st century warfare	view
Grey Paper - GR73	The "Splendid" Outlook - the RN submarine flotilla on camera	view
Grey Paper - GR72	Artillery: Form Support to Strike	view
Grey Paper - GR69	'Asymmetric' Threats - an introduction	view
Grey Paper - GR70	The Defence Budget to 2005	view
Grey Paper - GR71	Humanitarian Aid in the Balkans - First Lessons	view
Grey Paper - GR67	Next generation global navigation systems	view
Grey Paper - GR66	The utility of the use of force in future conflicts	view
Grey Paper - GR65	Missile defence: the present status of UK policy	view
Grey Paper - GR64	For the RN Submarine Service? - by Captain Nemo	view
Grey Paper - GR63	Smart Procurement and its implementation	view
Grey Paper - GR62	Consolidation within the European armoured vehicle industry - progress report	view
Grey Paper - GR61	Implications of the German Elections on the country's defence policy and the restructuring of Europe's defence industry	view
Grey Paper - GR58	The effect of the invitation to join NATO on the defence markets in the three states of central Europe Nicholas Marsh	view
Grey Paper - GR59	Directed Energy Weapons - Star Wars meets the battlefield.	view
Grey Paper - GR56	Implications of the Asian financial crisis for regional security and defence exports - Nicholas Marsh	view
Grey Paper - GR57	Issues involved in development pilotless combat aircraft - Nicholas Marsh	view
Grey Paper - GR54	Thinking the Unthinkable : Scrap Project Horizon	view
Grey Paper - GR55	Northern Ireland - what does it mean for the Army?	view
Grey Paper - GR53	Defence Procurement: Will we be Smart or still dumb? - Bill Kincaid	view
Grey Paper - GR51	Russian naval modernisation - Nicholas Marsh	view
Grey Paper - GR52	Chinese development of her military capabilities - Nicholas Marsh	view
Grey Paper - GR49	Smart Procurement : an Overview - Nicholas Marsh	view
Grey Paper - GR50	Electronic Commerce applied to defence procurement - Nicholas Marsh	view
Grey Paper - GR48	Information warfare : how much substance beneath the hype? - Peter Mandaville	view
Grey Paper - GR44	Britain's Reserve Forces - John Wilkinson MP	view
Grey Paper - GR45	International defence export license control regimes - Nicholas Marsh	view
Grey Paper - GR47	Caspian Sea conflicts - Nicholas Marsh	view
Grey Paper - GR46	UK Defence exports - Nicholas Marsh	view
Grey Paper - GR43	Peacekeeping operations - when should the UK become involved?	view
Grey Paper - GR42	Is there a future for the Aircraft carrier in the Royal Navy?	view
Grey Paper - GR40	Military history and uses of landmines	view
Grey Paper - GR41	The effects of landmines on civilian populations	view
Grey Paper - GR39	Strategic Defence Review - based on views at UKDF meeting held 29 September 1997 (see CP14)	view
Grey Paper - GR38	Trends in International Security - Nicholas Marsh	view
Grey Paper - GR36	European Defence Consolidation - based on views expressed at UKDF meeting held 22 July 97 (see CP13)	view
Grey Paper - GR37	Proaction mediation and the new security : The European Centre for International Conflict Resolution - Nicholas Marsh and Peter Mandaville	view
Grey Paper - GR35	Defence Equipment Acquisition : the European Dimension 10/11 July 97 - keynote address by Sir Robert Walmsley KCB AM FIEE, Chief of Defence Ministry of Defence Procurement, UK	view
Grey Paper - GR60	Thinking the Unthinkable: Scrap Project Horizon	view
Grey Paper - GR33	Thinking the Unthinkable - The collapse of the Atlantic alliance (see CP11)	view
Grey Paper - GR34	Controlling defence expenditure - a synopsis of the presentation by Roger Jackling, Second Permanent Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defence at UKDF meeting, 10 June) (see CP12)	view
Grey Paper - GR32	An introduction to consolidation of the European Defence Industry (see CP10)	view
Grey Paper - GR31	Thinking the Unthinkable - Modifying the Vanguard Class nuclear capacity (see CP9)	view
Grey Paper - GR30	Thinking the Unthinkable - What price an independent Royal Air Force? (see CP8)	view
Grey Paper - GR28	Thinking the Unthinkable - Is there need for a Main Battle Tank in the British Army? (see CP6)	view
Grey Paper - GR29	Thinking the Unthinkable - New roles for Vanguard	view
Grey Paper - GR26	The security context and present capabilities	view
Grey Paper - GR27	The Conservative Defence Perspective for the New Parliament	view
Grey Paper - GR25	New Government - New Procurement Strategy?	view
Grey Paper - GR24	Labour's Defence & Security Policy (Dr David Clark at UKDF meeting, 11 March) (see CP5)	view
Grey Paper - GR18	The requirement for UK expeditionary forces in the post-Cold War era	view
Grey Paper - GR19	Stealth technology - where to?	view
Grey Paper - GR20	Is Gibraltar still important for European security?	view
Grey Paper - GR21	Replacement for the Eurofighter - military and industrial considerations	view
Grey Paper - GR22	Missiles rather than artillery shells	view
Grey Paper - GR23	Overstretch and the changing relationship between the military and civil society	view
Grey Paper - GR17	A Military University	view
Grey Paper - GR13	Future International Security (Michael Portillo at General Staff Academy in Moscow) (see CP4)	view
Grey Paper - GR15	Exports : An Industry Perspective	view
Grey Paper - GR16	Introduction to the UK Defence Industry	view
Grey Paper - GR14	The Gurkhas	view
Grey Paper - GR12	Alternative Defence Procurement - The Australian Model	view
Grey Paper - GR7	Towards a defence industrial strategy: identifying the industrial base	view
Grey Paper - GR8	A new framework for Defence procurement (John Spellar, Forum Meeting, November 96) (see CP1)	view
Grey Paper - GR9	Views of Procurement, (Forum Meeting, November 1996 (see CP2)	view
Grey Paper - GR10	A future for Defence R&D (Dr David Clark at MSF Conference) (see CP3)	view
Grey Paper - GR11	Reviewing Defence - the Australian experience	view
Grey Paper - GR6	The Australian defence industrial strategy	view
Grey Paper - GR5	British treaty obligations and security commitments beyond the North Atlantic alliance	view
Grey Paper - GR4	Two principles for a defence review	view
Grey Paper - GR3	The implications of lessons learnt from Desert Storm for the JSF and FOA	view
Grey Paper - GR2	A single medical service	view
Grey Paper - GR1	Defence diversification in the UK	view

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