However you look at it, the public will not accept cuts to the branch of the forces who are losing good people every day while the other two branches lose nobody.
Overly simplistic - yes.
Hard to argue against though. How do you argue doing less about the death rate on the ground, to keep some additional capability which might be used one day, maybe, perhaps ? Thats why the Army is affected less.
Best thing to do here is pull every lask man Jack and Jill out of Afghanistan. To be frank, it won't matter a jot to U.K. Security if we do so. It will I accept, make a dreadful difference to the people of Afghanistan, once the Taliban flood back. But no way should our country follow the alarmingly ill-advised path of invoking a Binary Shift in the Military balance from the Navy and Air Force toward the Army! I understand that is what is being alluded to here.
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