During World War II, the Ministryof Defence used the Brompton Road station as a military bunker, and Winston Churchill himself is said to have held strategy meetings there.
Notwithstanding these fundamentally changed circumstances, many policy-makers in the U.S. (particularly DoD) and Japan (particularly the Ministryof Defense and the LDP) seem locked in the old Cold War paradigm, with the target now seemingly being China.
For its part, the British Ministryof Justice has refused Israeli requests to set aside the Arab demand to indict Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz for war crimes.
And it is interesting to speculate on what might have happened to his reputation if he had been given the interior ministry that he so coveted, and thus been responsible for the French police during the Algerian war or the events of 1968.