Originally Posted by
ORAC
Military is fighting ‘£20bn cash crisis’
That's what happens when you decided to plan your future buy based upon making financial "savings" over the 10-year plan. What really happens is you cannot get anywhere near the assumed level of savings, because there are always more ops to do and if you aren't on ops you need to train for ops. You could stop the training but then what else is there to do? If you don't train you have no op capability and a lot of very bored people.
You could of course hit the T&S budgets again, but that saves peanuts, or you could bring in great ideas like PAYD and FAM which all make people (our most important asset) even less valued than they already are (great summation of the SFA fiasco in the
Gruaniad recently - well worth a read)
Just like most government departments, all the low and medium hanging fruit has already been saved in Defence, which leaves just cuts to capability. Oh and we tried that once, with an entire FJ fleet and the MPA force, and that's worked really well.
