Originally Posted by
Asturias56
Apparently quite a few people sweating across the UK military - industrial complex.................. he doesn't take prisoners................
But we had the Admirals writing in the Times letter pages rebutting Hastings article today ... this will run and run.............
Cummings saw off the Remain establishment and he will have the military establishment for breakfast, lunch and dinner if it takes him on in the political arena (of which the press is part). A better approach would be to welcome the scrutiny. The military-industrial complex has grown lazy; brief consideration of the concept of ‘defence inflation’ should make that clear. Cummings is not anti-military, in fact some would say he is obsessed with military thinking. Moreover the 2% needs to be spent somehow as I can’t see Johnson allowing that target to be missed. There is plenty of innovation going on in various corners of the defence and security establishment and Cummings will want to reward that in favour of continually replenishing the corporate trough. BAES will be keen to play the ‘jobs’ card but that is full of weaknesses for Cummings to exploit: witness for one the difficulty in exporting anything.