IF properly reported then Dannat has showed that he is incapable of understanding either the MOD budgets decision re. the new carriers (they are for intervention warfare) nor the MOD budget (his "forgetting" that the MOD budget mainly consists of salary and salary related items).
I would be worried if I was a senior army officer that my leader was so incapable of understanding his job.
Maybe he will be stating that only people who learnt how to ride a horse should be promoted to senior positions !
Seriously, this is merely a very poor piece of lobbying by Dannat and he let his rhetoric get carried away (which will mean that the next time he meets his naval colleagues he will be teased mercilessly). But it also shows how successful the MOD has been at setting the service chiefs against each other instead of joining together to make a concerted case for proper funding.
It is worrying just how bad the service chiefs are at strategic thinking.
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