Originally Posted by
Asturias56
" but history has a habit of repeating itself,"
I'm afraid the bit of history which is repeating is the chronic lack of cash for defence
Looking back it's hard to see a decision on UK military matters that wasn't mainly budget driven after 1952
For ever. My study is pre Great War.
It was always a trade off between defined military need and Treasury. Some very clever and devoted Defence staff just about won enough, but by Christmas 1914 the army was in a desperate manpower state.
For ever ............