Defence cuts
Can any one tell us what proportion of the overall cost of the armed services is spent on:
Equipment
Current manpower salaries
Retired pay/ pensions (and include all senior officers who have "retired")
then we may judge better what the effect of any proposed efence cuts amy be. To simply cut the manpower at lower levels (as has happened in the past) will just exacerbate the situation. Who will advise on the cuts? No oen will suggest their own redundancy surely