Roland,
Those aren't "assaults," they are merely downsizing, as decreed by the uniformed Top Brass, and why not in this day and age, after all, why do you NEED an Army any larger than 82,000 regulars and 38,000 reservists, more than 7 or 8 fast jet squadrons and 30 odd major warships, what would they all do?
We have a military that will be adequate for our needs, which is currently invading Middle Eastern countries and right royally fcuking them over.
If we only needed UK home defence, then something between Eire and Austria would do.
The Observer is my favourite paper...