Originally Posted by
beardy
So you admit that you are not playing like a team, despite being united? And which bit of the team is letting the rest down? Could that have been 'James Hopkins the former Army man' named in the article.
The UK defence establishment is not a team. It is a collection of private empires, power bases and localised cliques that are suspicious of outsiders, dislike change and dislike it even more when their sacred cows are questioned. Just look at the way the army capbadges brief against each other, the services brief against each other and everyone blames someone else (usually civil service or contractors) for whatever woe is out there. Its a not a team, its a collection of loosley warring tribes who make and break alliances to further their own self interest as they see fit.