Military Intelligence Cuts For The U.K.

British soldiers in action against the Taliban during operations in Kajaki
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Military Intelligence Cuts Risk UK's National Security,
Document Shows -- The Telegraph

The military's intelligence service is facing severe cuts that will reduce its ability to foresee future threats to national security and dangers to British forces abroad, a confidential Whitehall document shows.

British analysis of Russia's military capabilities and activities will be reduced as the Ministry of Defence slashes the size and budget of the Defence Intelligence Staff, a senior officer has warned.

The agency is losing more than one in five of its Whitehall staff and having its budget cut by nearly £7 million as the Ministry of Defence cuts costs.

The Daily Telegraph has seen an MoD document showing that the cuts will have serious consequences for Britain's ability to anticipate and react to future security threats.

The DIS analyses foreign countries' military capabilities, monitoring both conventional weapons like aircraft and missiles and nuclear, biological and chemical weapons proliferation.

The paper says: "Implementation of Streamlining risks disrupting the DIS' ability to provide strategic warning of security threats to the UK and UK interests worldwide and, specifically, where UK military forces might be employed. Threats may not be foreseen, or not identified in a timely manner, by analytical teams thinned through Streamlining."

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My Comment: If I was a foreign power that wanted to do harm to the defense of the U.K. .... I would just support the establishment that runs Great Britain. They are doing an excellent job all by themselves.