6 min read43 min When the Ministry of Defence launched a string of reforms targeted at improving its work with small business, they did not stint on the rhetoric. Ministers championed the founding of the “transformative” Office for Small Business Growth, as part of a key pillar of reforms first touted in the Defence Industrial Review. “The OfSBG will oversee a comprehensive programme of change, ranging from policy and commercial process simplification,” the department’s press release read. But resignations, a collapse in morale, and spats over what the government considers British have plagued the reforms, with much of the industry in open revolt. One member of an advisory panel that oversaw the reforms viewed the changes quite differently from the government: “All they’ve done, ultimately, is create a website.” Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine four years ago, defence policy has returned to the forefront of British politics. The long-broken system of armed forces recruitment has been addressed, numerous reviews on strategy have been considered and, slowly but surely, cumulative spending has increased. Relations …