According to the UK Independence Party website UKIP will try to achieve the following if they gain power at the 2010 general election:

International terrorism will normally be the responsibility of the security services and the police. The armed forces may be required if a threat of this kind is expected by sea or air, or if the scale of an event by land is too large for the police to contain. It will be the task of the forces to maintain effective links and procedures with the security services so that they can act in their support.

Among other things, this will require the improvement of our present woefully inadequate coastal forces.

Rogue States will continue to have to be dealt with internationally. As a global trading nation, member of the UN Security Council and one of the leading military powers it will often be in our national interest to be involved. Some of these states are likely to have nuclear weapons in the future, so that it would be irresponsible to abandon our own strategic nuclear deterrent.

I would be interested to hear both positive and negative views on UK Independence Party’s International Terrorism policies in the comments below?