BBC report on increased level of positive drug tests in the Army at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7142413.stm.
RUSI defence management analyst Christianne Tipping said the Ministry of Defence's drugs policy needed to re-examined, especially "at a time when recruitment and retention are problematic"
there could be a need to look at a more pragmatic management strategy so that recruitment difficulties in certain trades are not compounded by high discharge rates resulting from drug offences
What exactly does she mean by that - lowering our standards or picking on other trades? Unless she's suggesting that soldiers use drugs-testing as an easy exit, but no-one can predict when and where the tests come, so it's not easy to adopt this cynical view. Maybe the clue is just in the fact that she's a "management analyst".