The Brits have finally decided.
Social programs win out over the defense of their nation. Pity. The Brits have always held themselves apart from mainland Europe. I would call it being European without being European. Those days are apparently over.
via Defense Management....
In a memo, the head of the army revealed that an extra 5,000 redundancies are to come by 2015 on top of the 7,000 redundancies announced in last year's Strategic Defence and Security Review.
The cuts are said to form part of plans to reduce the size of the regular armed forces and increase the number of reserves.
Chief of the General Staff General Sir Peter Wall revealed the cuts in a memo to officers, the Daily Telegraph has reported.
"Regular Army manpower will be cut more steeply, with an additional reduction of 5,000 over and above the 7,000 already in progress as a result of the SDSR," wrote General Wall.
"This takes the Army to around 90,000 by 2015. The additional manpower cuts are now being scoped but will inevitably require a further redundancy programme.