UK/Ministry of Defence

UK/Ministry of Defence
UK/Ministry of Defence
Parent organization	UK
Headquarters	Whitehall, Westminster, London
Leader	Secretary of State for Defence;
Type	military
Subgroups	• United Kingdom Special Forces; • Directorate General Media and Communications; • Directorate of Targeting and Information Operations; • Directorate of Defence Communications; • UK/Ministry of Defence/Press Office; • Army Doctrine Committee; • Defence Intelligence and Security Centre; • Intelligence Corps; • “Development”; • Concepts and Doctrine Centre; • Land Warfare Centre; • 15 (UK) Psychological Operations Group; • 7644 (Media operations) Squadron; • British Forces Broadcasting Service
Staff	58,160
Founder of	Project Alchemy
Exposed by	2021 British Ministry of Defence leaks
Subpage	•UK/Ministry of Defence/Press Office;

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Employee	Job	Appointed	End	Description
Jon Day	Second Permanent Secretary	2011	2012
Jon Day	Director-General of Security Policy	2008	2011
Stephen Jolly	Director of Defence Communications	2013	2015
Amil Khan	Syria Armed Opposition Support Project Director	July 2017
Angus Taverner		2000	2004	"Media Ops Policy & Plans"
Kevin Tebbit	Permanent Under Secretary of State	July 1998	November 2005

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:An Open Letter On Defence	open letter		Michael Boyce Michael Clarke Chris Donnelly Richard Barrons David Richards Jeremy Blackham Robert Fulton Hew Strachan Edward Argles Paul Cornish Peter Dunning James Glancy Michael Graydon Antony Hichens Clifford Kamara Andrew Lambert Frank Ledwidge Tony Mason Gwythian Prins Michael Rose Cayle Royce Julian Thompson	An open letter the BBC published from a group of academics and military men written to the UK Prime Minister highlighting "global threats", warning that "security is threatened in almost every corner of the globe" and that decreased military expenditure would "damage our international credibility". Authors included at least three members of the Institute for Statecraft.
Document:How British journalists are seduced by the Ministry of Defence and spooks	Article	28 September 2021	Richard Norton-Taylor	In the world of the spooks, few in the media raised questions about the root causes of terror attacks in Britain even when Eliza Manningham-Buller, then head of MI5, warned that the invasion of Iraq would increase the terrorist threat in Britain.

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