U.K.Defense Budget Is Under The Scalpel. How Much To Cut?

Britain's Defence Review: Defending The Realm -- The Economist

Britain’s overstretched defence budget should be cut—but not in the ferocious way being contemplated.

ONLY America among Western countries has been more willing than Britain to put its armed forces in harm’s way. After America, Britain is by some distance the second largest contributor in both troops and treasure to the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Yet the previous Labour government was reluctant to increase the defence budget in line with its grandiose ambitions—and now the coalition government is set to cut it. Defence spending can indeed be trimmed—but less quickly and deeply than that of many other departments.

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My Comment: These have the potential to be dangerous cuts .... but with financial problems and huge deficits the priority .... I doubt that the politicians care.