BEagle,
It did, you really CAN'T count can you?
All I ever argued on this board was that defence was not suffering huge CUTS in actual expenditure, as was constantly and inaccurately claimed. The increases, for such they are, may well not be enough and the money very badly spent and managed, but they were increases in actual expenditure.
Why can't we, with the third largest defence budget on the planet, sustain and properly equip a force of 8000 in Afghanistan?