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This paper examines the various options the UK government has to reduce the country’s military spending and revise its security policy. To support these tasks, the paper's authors focus on four questions. 1) How much does the UK spend on its military and its international commitments? 2) How does this spending compare with that of its NATO allies, European peers, other democracies and the rest of the world? 3) Why does the UK commit more of its national resources to its military than other comparably-sized states? And 4) are the UK’s strategic ambitions compatible with the decline in its defense budgets?