From Times Online:
When that great reforming Secretary for War, the philosopher Richard Burdon Haldane, took office in 1905, the generals asked him what sort of Army he wanted. “An Hegelian one,” he replied.
And he got it. By 1914 the Army had transformed itself through a process of ruthlessly honest inquiry, rectifying the humiliating shortcomings revealed by the Boer War. Kipling was proved right: “We have had no end of a lesson; it will do us no end of good.”
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My Comment: One can question (and be in doubt) of their decisions on the battlefield, but there is no question about one thing .... they definitely cannot properly manage their defense budgets .... and neither can the politicians in our governments who are suppose to oversee this in the first place.
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