Finningley Boy
I shall give a direct answer to your question.
Yes. On so many levels.
The world is slowly but surely descending into predictable chaos and even as it happens our government still can’t see fit to increase defence spending in a meaningful way. If not now, when?
Equipment costs too much, our procurement process is too cumbersome and wasteful and, even if we had the kit, we can’t afford to pay and house our personnel well enough to make them stay.
When guys went off to China there was a rush to call them traitors. Maybe we should have done a little more introspection and asked ourselves why. Life is expensive nowadays and skill sets are marketable.
Whatever half-arsed measures are thought up now to stave the flow may well be too little, too late.
BV