Originally Posted by
Willard Whyte
Ill advised 'foreign excursions' might have eaten up a lot of the increase, and more, in budget during some of the 'Blair/Brown' time. If one goes to war at least be prepared to pay for it.
Desert Storm, Iraq no-fly and the various excursions around the former Yugoslavia were all started under the Thatcher/Major administrations. Gulf war II and AFganistan were started under Blair, as was Sierra Leine.
Oh hang on - we're not allowed to talk about Sierra Leone because it was a successful one that achieved its objectives. Forget I mentioned it.
Libya and the war against the EU came under Camoron, of course.
I'm neither attacking nor defending either group of administrations, I'm merely pointing out that defence spending (especially on equipment) was not markedly lower under Blair than under the administrations which preceeded and succeeded him. The data show the opposite, in fact.
PDR