Originally Posted by
Asturias56
"Why should the British Army be configured to defend Central Europe - at the expense of wider capabilities - when the denizens of Central Europe can't be arsed to do so?"
Throwing stones and glass houses springs to mind. The US might well ask the same question about the whole of Europe, including the UK.
But to answer the question, because famously no military conflagration in Central Europe has ever spread to affect us here in the UK.