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  Coalition faces split over Trident nuclear replacement

  17 Jun 2012: As defence secretary confirms £1bn contract for plant, Lib Dems confirm campaign for alternative to Tory plans for 2016

• Government agrees £1bn contract for nuclear submarine reactors

  17 Jun 2012: Deal is part of plan to replace fleet that carries Trident

• Ursula Brennan: the civil servant who is a glutton for punishment

  13 Jun 2012:

  One of Whitehall's most senior mandarins it leaving one troubled department - and heading straight into another

• Global Peace Index 2012 mapped

  Interactive, 12 Jun 2012:

  The Global Peace Index is the world's top measure of peacefulness. See how the data looks with the GPI official map by Visions of Humanity

• Army cuts another 2,900 jobs

  12 Jun 2012: Defence secretary warns that redundancy rounds must continue as RAF and navy also announce job cuts

• Philip Hammond: army will lose regiments and rely more on reserves

  7 Jun 2012:

  Defence secretary reveals wide-ranging shakeup that will cut number of troops by 20,000 in next eight years

• Air force plans to land its mysterious unmanned space plane in June

  5 Jun 2012:

  Pentagon plane has been orbiting the Earth for over a year, but defense department has not been forthcoming about why

• Leon Panetta: China should not fear new US military focus on Asia-Pacific

  2 Jun 2012:

  US defence secretary attempts to assuage Beijing's fears over strategic rethink and dismisses claims it will heighten tension

• BAE Systems to axe 600 jobs

  31 May 2012: Defence giant BAE Systems is planning to axe more than 600 jobs and close a historic factory which made tanks for the first world war

• Military chief defends edict restricting contact with MPs

  28 May 2012:

  Advice restricts members of armed forces from talking to MPs – even informally – without permission of government minister

• First woman to command Royal Navy frigate takes helm

  22 May 2012: Commander Sarah West takes charge of the frigate HMS Portland in 'significant step up'

• Design contracts to be announced for next-generation submarines

  20 May 2012: Move signals government's determination to press ahead with replacement programme for Trident nuclear missile system

• UK targeted over arms sales and war

  17 May 2012: Letters: Will it prompt more people in Britain to ask why our soldiers are still killing and being killed in Afghanistan after more than 10 years?

• Defence spending: Hammond's military balance

  15 May 2012: Editorial: either the minister has managed something very important or he is deluding himself and the public on an absolutely heroic scale

• David Davis says case for secret courts based on a 'falsehood'

  15 May 2012: Former shadow home secretary says government's argument 'blown out of the water' following US leak about British double agent

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