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Foreign Policy: Tom King minute to MT ("Defence Policy and Procurement Needs") [comment on "very personal" paper, commissioned to assess procurement issues, by Alan Clark, setting out "his ideas for a new defence policy and indeed foreign policy for the 1990s"] [released Dec 2016]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/2992 f185
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 35pp
Themes: Charles Powell minutes, Media, British relations with the Federal Republic of Germany, British relations with the Soviet Union, British relations with the US, Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), Foreign policy (Central & Eastern Europe), Foreign policy (International organizations), European Union (general), Defence (general), Public spending & borrowing, Science & technology