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Originally Posted by Chris
The comedy lies in the fact that the hole is at least £5 billion too small. I don’t know if you noticed but the second Cold War has been on for a good few years now, and we’re woefully ill-equipped.
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Even if the second Cold War is happening - which I doubt - throwing billions at the MoD for more project managers to procure more equipment, inadequate before it even reaches the field, designed for warfare 30 years ago, isn’t the answer.
NATO combined military spending is over $1.5 trillion. Eclipsing that of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea combined. Another £5bn here or there is won’t touch the sides of the underlying problem. The military industrial complex has no incentive to drive efficiencies if everyone just writes it a blank cheque.