He has to upset a few apple carts before he goes.
He is right in one respect though there is a whole world of pain on the horizon for the UK armed forces no matter what government comes to power and the realities of the countries financial state and the poor state of our armed forces combine hopefully to bring some of the politicans who believe that we are still a big league player down to size. The defence review should also be coupled with a political review of where we want to be in the world and how we go about getting there.
The Labour reviews wanted to change the cold war armed forces to fight expitionary warfare with improved ISTAR allowing the commander to deploy forces for best effect. Great concept but where was the investment to back it up? Instead the money was frittered away on military adventure after military adventure with the treasury refusing to acknowledge the country has been at war!