Originally Posted by
Razor61
(Source: UK Ministry of Defence; issued Aug. 30, 2006)Similarly, I have identified a number of urgent equipment issues at Defence which needed addressing – including the rapid acquisition of new armoured vehicles – and again the Treasury has made new money available. And crucially, these operational costs are all funded from the Special Reserve – in other words the idea that the Defence budget is threatened by operational costs is completely groundless.
Mmmm
Seems to be in conflict with the comment below from the Daily Telegraph:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...25/wirq225.xml
Many soldiers have said that the policy of using Land Rovers has, in part, been foisted on the Army by a lack of more heavily armoured vehicles in Iraq - a claim the Ministry of Defence denies.
I seem to recall that good old Des didn’t identify a shortage of armour red vehicle, wasn't it the opposition of ripped into him about the issue, which he contested as being rubbish. It now appears that procuring new armoured vehicles was all Des Browne's idea (even though the MOD say we don't need them)!!!!
Thanks God Defence is in such safe hands!!!!