Excellent article on the Guardian web site by Henry Porter yesterday.
Having spent some 18 years in the Navy, its good to see that they Navy is getting more money for new ships, though I am still not sure why we need two 65,000 ton aircraft carriers, particularly when we will have to buy the planes to fly from them from the USA – now there’s a surprise!.
That said, defense spending has to be shared across all the services to maintain and even development of all services. A comment on the Sunday BBC Parkinson show told of shortage of ammunition in Afghanistan; we all know the past stories about lack of body armour and the conditions that many of the returning injured soldiers have had to endure.
It’s an interesting article that I hope will prompt some thoughts in the current government, but I expect it won’t!
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