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Frank Ledwidge's latest offering puts his finger on where (he believes) the real problem lies:

Punching Below Our Weight: How Inter-Service Rivalry has Damaged the British Armed Forces

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Sad too to note that with the air effort committed to Afghanistan the Brits were hard pressed to cobble together 12 aircraft for ops in Libya. Then there were of those that were grounded due to lack...

Listened to it. Picked up nothing earth shattering did you?

Here then is an opportunity to get a couple of thousand soldiers for a specially raised Afghan regiment or two?

Thanks for that. Of the specialists surely the training which takes months rather than years is not really that much of a problem? What % of these specialists need training which would last more than...

Ok, lets keen the eyes on that trend then. I too have heard that the married members are also more likely to want to move on due to domestic pressure. I recently met a major who had left the service...

Increased and more dangerous 'tours' should not be ruled out as a cause of the drop off in recruiting.

Quote from BBC article: "Among the concerns raised by the 9,000 servicemen and women surveyed were the frequency of tours, levels of pay and the quality of equipment and housing."

I suggest that...