This week it’s a Sitrep special looking back at the year of defence & current affairs in 2011.

How much progress been made in Afghanistan?

The extraordinary story of the Arab Spring…..will history judge it a success or failure?

What impact has the SDSR had now its findings are being implemented?

And we look at the challenges that lie ahead for 2012

PRESENTER: Kate Gerbau

STUDIO GUESTS:

BFBS’s defence analyst, Christopher Lee

Michael Codner, director of military sciences at the Royal United Services Institute

BFBS's reporter Geoff Meade**

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