Originally Posted by
Asturias56
yes - that's where we are .
All the intentions, plans, aspirations, desires etc etc have hit the hard rock that there isn't enough cash
Just look at UK F-35 purchases for another wonderful illustration of how economic reality imposes itself on MoD plans
This will continue until we either decide to tax people a lot more to pay for what we want OR
we decide on what we can afford and then cut our "needs" accordingly
OR, we spend our huge defence budget wisely so that it actually delivers, as does the much smaller defence budgets of many nations that achieve a far higher “bang for the buck” and manage to achieve much better value for money than MoD, the most prolific wasters of public money in the known universe!