Agreement with Totalwar
I have to agree with Totalwar concerning the procurement of equipment. As long as the Ministry of Defence - and DPA in particular - continue to employ school leavers on pifling civil service salaries to manage the procurement of kit competing with the military-industrial complex of the likes of BAe, with 'specialist service input' rotating, on average, every 18 months, the situation is unlikely to change.
And the situation hasn't changed. Read any account of the Great War and the Great Patriotic War and one will note the consistent issue of inadequacy of kit - field uniforms and weapons in particular.
And a mere accounting adjustment providing an 'extra' GBP 400M will not cover the lack of legitimacy of invading a Sovereign State (Iraq).
CC