None of this is rocket science. The gap between the capabilities we need to carry out the foreign and security policies of the UK government and the money available to fund those capabilities grows ever wider.
All to often the very next step in the debate is a half-educated rant about other budgets, wastage, yada, yada yada.
Austerity has a very long way to go [read up on the "soggy recovery" - more and more analysts feel we are going to live a very long time in very austere world]
There will be no blank cheques for the military - just a great many hard and unpopular choices.
And as for those ****ing carriers, don't get me started.