Rusi: Low marks for defence review

Professor Michael Clarke, director-general of defence thinktank Rusi, comments on Rusi's survey showing that less than a third of defence and security professionals think Britain has an appropriate national security strategy:

"Overall, the results reveal a high degree of scepticism among this elite survey of those most interested in the subject at the way defence is being handled.

"The strategic defence and security review still gets low marks from the clear majority of respondents. Indeed the Ministry of Defence gets little credit even for the success of the Libyan campaign.

"Given that it has been such a difficult year for defence in general and for the Ministry of Defence in particular, military and defence officials might be grateful that the results of the Rusi 2011 survey are not worse than they are."