Defence Review.

Anxiety is building up among some MPs and military brass that cuts will be imposed impeding our forces’ ability to maintain current operations.

This is the whole idea. Or it should be. This country can afford to defend itself and its vital interests with the most advanced modern weapons sufficient to deter or destroy any aggressor. What it cannot afford is to project global military power to coerce sovereign states or to bombard or invade them to make them follow our bidding. Not only does our military need to have that power scaled back, but the Foreign Office must come up with a global policy based on what is right, as well as realistic and reasonable, for Britain. Plainly much of what has gone on in the last ten years was not.