Personally we need a total review of defence policy commensurate with what really threatens us and what we can afford. We will always be threatened by individual minor agencies so throwing money at mad-cap schemes will not help. We certainly learnt just that in the 20th Century in Afghanistan over a hundred years ago.
More importantly, history has taught us that our friends can become our enemies, thus we should ensure that we can defend this island of ours no matter what. It was touch and go in the Second World War for us to rearm in time. Easy to build a Spitfire in a week. Now it takes years to build a Typhoon. Longer to train a pilot.
One cannot play politics with people's lives or indeed the safety of our nation. Time for this government to decide on priorities. And also ensure that those who do know what they are doing!