Originally Posted by glojo
Having just listened to the Vice Chief of the Defence staff General Sir Nicholas Houghton addressing the Parliamentary Defence Committee stating that all is well with our three services and they are all coping quite well with their commitments.
It was put to him that senior officers were claiming they were overstretched but he would not agree with that claim!!!
Very interesting. The current VCDS was appointed in 2009.
Originally Posted by Hansard
MEMORANDUM FROM THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
16. The MoD programme of work under the SDSR has six overlapping phases:
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— Phase 3—Force Testing comprises work to look at the effectiveness of possible future force structures against a range of scenarios. A series of Military Judgment Panels are meeting over the summer, drawing on high level operational analysis. Their conclusions will then be developed through further force structure modelling and analysis conducted by DSTL, with the subsequent conclusions subjected to structured senior review, overseen by the Vice Chief of the Defence Staff. This will generate top level military judgment on the robustness of force structure options which might emerge from the Review.