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19th Jan 2014, 08:37

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RP, not at all. You have succinctly stated potential requirements in s Strategic Defence Review.

The point though is that a force that has grown around Herrick - Chinook and C17 - may well be far in excess of the assets needed, or affordable, to meet the strategic requirements.

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The likes of BATUS and BATUK, the Falkland Islands and Cyprus?

I presume these have not been ignored for the last decade

thus the assets needed for Afg are in excess of those needed for the other tasks.

If you make a case that post-Herrick all the existing assets will enable the other tasks to be met with out stretch or over-stretch then the treasury would immediately seek cost saving to tight up the slack.

The E3 force may be a case in point with airframes bleeding away.

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