Vapour,
Don't worry you'll not have to sit up threat in a Type 42 because most of those will have gone as well!
The current 10 year 'no-threat' timeline does look spookily similar to the 1920s and 30s doesn't it. Of course the hindsight merchants will look at the start of any new conflict and look back 10 years and find the first spark that lead to war - and say we missed it at the time.
Still in the meantime, and with a huge hole in the cash plan - binning SHAR makes sense. When we see the totality of the changes needed to keep within MOD's budget I think even the fervent SHAR supporters will agree that the SHAR would have been in the tranche of cuts - sorry re-balancing - in any case.
Time to move on chaps - nostalgia doesn't win wars.
