Well done Nige, Chappie and everyone involved with the Channel 4 report. Day after day the lid is being lifted in the national media on the can of worms that purports to be the Defence Policy of this government. There is a negligent disregard for the manning, equipment and support requirements necessitated by the reckless calls on our Armed Forces, dictated by the White House via number10 and the MOD. The strong suspicion is that all three institutions either don't care or don't understand the self inflicted harm done to our forces before they can even close with the enemy. The supine way in which senior officers have collaborated with these demands, while paring budgets to the bone is a scandal. If they can't stop the rot they should go, or forever be infected by it. Someone has to tell the Great Leader that he has overstretched his withered forces, and must start to reduce commitments and simultaneously markedly increase expenditure. That someone has to be a Senior Officer, backed up by his fellow senior officers, because no member of this government or its submissive Civil Service will do so. Any volunteers gentlemen?