Have to agree with what Not a boffin says history shows us we don't get to fight the wars we plan on. And we therefore need an armed forces that is balanced and with suficient quality equipment/personnell and training to make it flexible. Unfortunatley we don't have that at the minite. Our armed forces have to few manned and equipped deployable elements and the culture of robbing peter to pay paul has moved to be the norm.Everytime our powers that be promise us new sturctures to redress the problem they strip the budgets and promise the kit at some date in the future and then increase the comittments. I seam to remember SDR being based on a premis of having 10 years notice of having to fight a conflict......well obviously the crystal ball has broken.