14.2 |
Conclusions: Military equipment (post‑conflict)
80.
Those
responsible for making decisions on the investment in military
capabilities
should
continually evaluate whether the balance between current
operational
requirements
and long‑term defence programmes is right, particularly to
meet
an evolving
threat on current operations.
81.
During the
first four years of Op TELIC, there was no clear statement of
policy
setting out
the level of acceptable risk to UK forces and who was responsible
for
managing
that risk. The MOD has suggested to the Inquiry that successive
policies
defining
risk ownership and governance more clearly have addressed that
absence,
and that
wider MOD risk management processes have also been revised. In any
future
operation
the level of force protection required to meet the assessed threat
needs to
be addressed
explicitly.
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