UK military problems & policies

[davidbfpo]

Quite clearly there is contest within Whitehall-Westminster over the UK's defence budget, whether a current review will end up with reductions being made and the military being reduced.

Step forward to the public rostrum @ RUSI, the UK's top soldier General Nick Carter, with a speech approved by his ministerial boss:

In this one-off lecture General Sir Nicholas Carter, Chief of the General Staff, will elaborate on some of the increasingly real threats that pose a risk to the UK’s way of life as described by Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach in his annual Chief of the Defence Staff lecture to RUSI last December.

Link to the speech, in a podcast, transcript and the Q&A (70 mins):https://rusi.org/event/dynamic-secur...d-british-army

The CDS speech is far shorter (32 mins):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o6Y...ature=youtu.be