Perhaps you should start your study with the comments fromWilliam Rees-Mogg in Monday's Times
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/com...cle2943261.ece
Everyone knows we are overstretched, but people have banged on about it in here and elsewhere for ages. New Labour have conveniently ignored things for ages and despite the statements by retired senior officers, they feel no shame that our chaps live in accommodation that is unsuitable for asylum seekers, feign pride at the immense sacrifice by our people, allow charity to attempt to provide assets for the rehabilitation of wounded servicemen and women that the State should provide in recognition of their condition, constantly hack at our ever-changing budgets and force some incredibly motivated and selfless people to live in an environment where they and their families have to cope with the destabilising effects of change, the rumours of it and New Labour's love of playing world policeman on the cheap. Somebody once told me that this isn't a cheap business, but that doesn't stop GB and his cronies from trying to make it so. The UOR process is propping up an exhausted procurement system that relies on outdated planning assumptions. It's fortunate for the Government that they got caught taking cash from questionable sources so that they can quietly ignore the Armed Forces again.