Defence Cuts Are Worse Than Those Which Allowed Nazi Germany To Rearm -- The TelegraphCuts to the defence budget have left Britain worse equipped to deal with threats from abroad than in the early 1930s when the country narrowly re-armed in time to beat the Nazi war machine, an academic believes.
Gwyn Prins, of the London School of Economics, said the threat from failed states and terrorist organisations was worse than that of Hitler because it of their unpredictability.
He accused the Government of ignoring the lessons of history by not preparing for the unexpected and called for last year’s Strategic Defence and Security Review to be scrapped.
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My Comment: The sentence that caught my attention in this post is the following ....
.... Instead, he argued, military chiefs and civil servants should be freed to develop strategy and policy entirely free from financial considerations.
Lol .... someone should inform Andy Bloxham that right now it is all about the money.