Tuesday 15 April 2008

UK Defence squeezed as MoD is struggling to match its many missions

British defence policy is coming apart at the seams. Having tried to bring order to a chaotic system of arms procurement, the government is to revert to bad habits. The Ministry of Defence plans to scrap its biennial budget cycle and go back to planning on a yearly basis. Successive Labour governments have fallen victim to unrealistic ambitions that the British armed forces can continue to project power on a tight budget.

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