Fascinated to hear what the UK’s Strategic Defence Review finds when it finally gets underway.
As far as I can tell, the UK is a senior middle-ranking power… with major threats coming from terrorism and insurgencies, not nation-states. The question must then be what good do nuclear weapons, aircraft carriers and submarines do when facing these type of threats?
Surely we could use the money that is wasted on these remnants of the military-industrial complex more effectively – in beefing up the capabilities of ground troops, but also in other – more needy – parts of our economy?
The problem is the paradigm that the British – and others – are stuck in… that Britain needs to have a nuclear deterrent (against what – and… really… would we use it???) and that Britain needs to be able to ‘project power’ – the sooner we get out of that archaic mindset, the better!
Is this a cut you would make?
