UK MoD Report: Disaster In Planning And Leadership By The U.K. In Supporting Its Troops

Marines from Plymouth-based 42 Commando Group in Afghanistan. Photograph: PA

MoD Failings Mean Soldiers' Equipment Is Five Years Late, £35 Billion Over Budget - Report -- The Telegraph

Soldiers lives are being put at risk by “endemic” failures at the Ministry of Defence which have led to the equipment procurement programme being £35 billion over budget and five years behind schedule, according to an official report that ministers are accused of trying to suppress.

MoD systems for acquiring new equipment are “harming our ability…to conduct difficult current operations'' and should be privatised, according to the leaked report by Bernard Gray, a leading businessman and former adviser to Labour defence ministers.

In a separate development it was disclosed that hundreds of British soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan are locked in legal battles with the MoD over compensation.

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My Comment: This UK report holds back no punches. It is damning and critical of the actions and procedures of the Ministry of Defense.

What I personally found most disgusting was this sentence .... In a separate development it was disclosed that hundreds of British soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan are locked in legal battles with the MoD over compensation.

Crippled soldiers going to court to fight against their own government for help. I just cannot believe it.

The waste .... the incompetence .... the inertia of the entire system .... now I know why many UK soldiers do not re-enlist when their tour of duty is up. Who would?