Originally Posted by
Asturias56
Nothing wrong withe policy when the USSR had just collapsed - but, like the 10 year rule between the wars, these things tend to become entrenched as it means you have to suddenly start spending money when you reverse them.
A gentle reminder that something kicked off in late 1990. When War Reserves were called forward.... Politicians were criticised for lack of preparedness, but in many cases it was nothing to do with them.
And I suggest that there is something very wrong with a policy that scraps spares, then immediately procures replacements (because one hand doesn't know what the other is doing), only for them to be scrapped again, and so on for at least 8 years.