Panel 4 - full presentation

• … the biggest one is the amount of resources that are taken up, like 40% of the discretionary budget of the US is military… taking up enormous amounts of resources that could be transferred to mitigating the causes of war (UK019: male, white, ex- military, current defence manufacturing). [...] So if the country and the government wants the defence industry to diversify, there needs to be incentives that minimise the risk for them to do that so, whether that’s funding support, whatever, that needs to be there …the defence industry, from my point of view, is essentially a magic money tree. [...] There is always money available no matter what …they almost need to be made less dependent on that to make them do other things…I don’t think it’s a priority for the defence sector because I think it is more lucrative to be in the defence sector and be paid public money to develop defence products than it is to be in private sector and take the risk with no guaranteed return (UK022: male, white, c. [...] BARRIER: The power of the defence sector • Well, the major barrier is this, for Trident, the only reason they have got it - …- the only reason they have got it is to keep a seat at the top table of the Security Council at the UN and it's a political thing. [...] …Coming to which we’ve got such a short time frame now to really make terms of the reality that I’m born into and now having a son progress …if you look at the Integrated Strategic Review and – and you’re aware of where we could have been and that how Boris Johnson has positioned global Britain in the world we had the technology to live in a different existence – it’s and it’s very much an imperia.