Of course he won't be CDS by 2020 anyway, barring some unprecedented event(s), so he needn't really worry, he appears to be quite comfortable with the current administration's lean, and they his. In which case he is not publicly challenging Government policy. I notice Sir Max Hasting's contribution in the Mail today, he doesn't seem too wholly convinced of the deterrent himself these days, advancing the Cybre threat as of greater concern. It is of great concern, but so
is the risk of abandoning something as impossible to return to as the nuclear deterrent, once it is gone.
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