Troop-Cuts Will Put British Army At "Breaking Point": Former Army Chief
BY TYLER DURDEN WEDNESDAY, JUL 06, 2022 - 03:30 AM Authored by Alexander Zhang via The Epoch Times,
The UK government’s decision to go ahead with planned troop cuts despite the war in Ukraine is “madness” and will put the British Army at “breaking point,” a former army chief has warned...
At the NATO summit in Madrid last week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the government will increasing its defence spending to 2.5 percent of GDP by the end of the decade [Sure].
But the government said it is still going ahead with the decision to cut the army by 10,000 soldiers over the next few years, which was set out in last year’s Integrated Review.
Gen. Lord Dannatt, former head of the British Army, said on July 3:
“It’s a mere fact of life we’ll break the remainder of our army if our army is not large enough … to do what the government of the day wants us to do.”
“You can’t make people work endlessly with too small numbers. So numbers in the terms of our land forces really, really matter.” he told Sky News.
Dannatt urged the government to reverse the cuts, as the army will have to play its part in “deterring Russian aggression,” he said.
The retired general added, “When it comes to old-fashioned fighting, numbers do matter and to have an army of only just over 70,000, 30 percent down from where we were 10 years ago is going to leave us woefully short if we find that we’ve got to maintain large number of troops at high readiness forward-deployed in Eastern Europe.”
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Troop-Cuts Will Put British Army At "Breaking Point": Former Army Chief
BY TYLER DURDEN
WEDNESDAY, JUL 06, 2022 - 03:30 AM
Authored by Alexander Zhang via The Epoch Times,
The UK government’s decision to go ahead with planned troop cuts despite the war in Ukraine is “madness” and will put the British Army at “breaking point,” a former army chief has warned...
At the NATO summit in Madrid last week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the government will increasing its defence spending to 2.5 percent of GDP by the end of the decade [Sure].
But the government said it is still going ahead with the decision to cut the army by 10,000 soldiers over the next few years, which was set out in last year’s Integrated Review.
Gen. Lord Dannatt, former head of the British Army, said on July 3:
“It’s a mere fact of life we’ll break the remainder of our army if our army is not large enough … to do what the government of the day wants us to do.”
“You can’t make people work endlessly with too small numbers. So numbers in the terms of our land forces really, really matter.” he told Sky News.
Dannatt urged the government to reverse the cuts, as the army will have to play its part in “deterring Russian aggression,” he said.
The retired general added, “When it comes to old-fashioned fighting, numbers do matter and to have an army of only just over 70,000, 30 percent down from where we were 10 years ago is going to leave us woefully short if we find that we’ve got to maintain large number of troops at high readiness forward-deployed in Eastern Europe.”
Camela is a genius stop mocking her!
3,2,1 But ITS noT STate Funds!!!!!
Just personal hypocrisy and pretty sure he has security and aids with him on the state payroll