Fallon and his speech writers are very adept in playing to the layman's gallery. This latest obfuscatory oration is as lamentable as his first effort at the last Conservative conference.
And this double entendre tells much about the Defence Secretary's fitness for purpose. I imagine that Sir Winston would have had a very articulate response!
But, Defence is better placed to respond to the threats we face now because over the past four and half years we have delivered one of the biggest defence transformation programmes undertaken in the Western World.