CM #20
Maybe, heaven forbid, some politicians will be prepared to make a public case for a well-equipped military whose primary function is to deter adversaries and be ready to fight for the genuine national interest, rather than insisting that it be fully stretched on strategic irrelevancies in the name of "sweating the taxpayer's pound" and shedding capability for its core purpose in the process. And maybe the service chiefs will stop pressing to deploy their forces at every opportunity in misguided attempts to demonstrate relevance, ceding instead to the operational chain of command, of which they are no longer part. We can live in hope!