The Strategic Defence Review is an incoherent mess of stalled (but unresolved) decision making: it creates future problems that will not go away

This week’s review of Britain’s defence spending is the opening salvo of the coalition’s plans to review spending across government. David Cameron and George Osborne have walked a finely balanced line of compromise to appease the defence establishment, argues Chris Brown. But this approach has led to a raft of unsustainable proposals that, in the end, leave key issues to be resolved later on