Originally Posted by
NutLoose
I cannot understand how we can have one of the largest budgets in the world, but shrinking assets. I still cannot believe we are closing airfields at the rate we are, stick the army on them, you can build a barracks, but a new airfield, forget it, the locals would be up in arms and a barracks is cheaper to build. it also makes no sense to clump all your transport assets at one airfield, not just from a war point of view, but any problems at Brize on the runway and you in effect shut the transport fleet down in one go.
I think the icing on the cake from HMG was inclusion of the strategic deterrent in the MoD budget a few years back. Plus growing "soft"capabilities like Cyber (which we are internationally pretty good at) which will place pressure on the likes of bombs, bullets, planes, airfields etc.