With All due respect to those serving we need to address a few issues.
1. When I was serving I did what the government of the day said.
2. This poor excuse of a country is bankrupt We cannot afford the £250 000 000 Libya has cost.
3. The population as a whole think we should not be in Afghanistan or Libya.
4. We are in negotiations with the Taliban in an effort to disengage from Afghanistan.
5. The reach and influence of Britain is small and getting smaller and that fact dictates the requirements of the SDSR.
6. Numerically the military might of the UK is smaller than a company like Tesco