Why No Tri-Service Unity With SDSR?
OK,
I have been around a bit, and am therefore not green, but I have to ask the question as the Treasury mandarins and civil serpents rub their hands with joy as all 3 services back bite and snipe at each other.
Instead of expending all this effort in conducting reviews of each other and squealing to the press and Treasury about how inefficient the other service is and gleefully offering up areas that the Treasury should axe in another service, why on earth aren't they uniting together to tell the Prime Minister, Treasury and the British people that now is not the time in this country's history to be cutting defence.
So sad and all of these single service and myopic inter service feuds will only be realised as fool hardy and grossly incompetent when (not if) the next conflict requires the kinds of capabilities that each service is now espousing should be cut from the other.
United we stand - united we fall.......absolute tosh, this is not leadership, but a free for all with absolutely no military rigour or joined up thinking whatsoever.
Enjoy your pensions Sirs, and please do not cringe too much when history judges you or you watch in amazement as the UK Defence Force that you are creating fails misreably in the future when next called to arms because of your poor leadership, moral courage and decision making.
Not a rant or vent - just sadness