Originally Posted by
Diff Tail Shim
Would not have anyone from the sh1tshow of our country at the moment remotely put foward to lead NATO. As for the SDR in 1998, the cuts also included commitments to modernisation and new equipment. Not the slash and burn we have seen in later Blue on Blue defence reviews.
The vast majority of which were unfunded (JCRS anyone?) and exacerbated by conducting two operations concurrently at way above scale and duration that the Defence Planning Assumptions and associated funding supported. Which was the direct cause of much of the "hollowing out" that followed.