This memorandum reads like a lobbying paper for the upcoming SDR. But it peddles a number of myths.
1. when would the UK ever need a nuclear deterrent?
2. Confirmed by CoG's own William Freer, hasn't miltech spending long ceased to have any economic spinoffs for civiltech?
3. As evidenced when outgoing PM Gordon Brown pushed through an order for aircraft carriers simply because his own constituents would be building them, when did a singular and coherent strategic rationale ever actually guide miltech spending?
4. aren't submarines, aircraft carriers, fighters, bombers, tanks and armoured vehicles all immensely vulnerable and so expensive now that they can no longer be put in harm's way?
5. how is the UK industrial wasteland ever going to be able to rearm?
6. can you see the queue of people signing up for military service?
This memorandum reads like a lobbying paper for the upcoming SDR. But it peddles a number of myths.
1. when would the UK ever need a nuclear deterrent?
2. Confirmed by CoG's own William Freer, hasn't miltech spending long ceased to have any economic spinoffs for civiltech?
3. As evidenced when outgoing PM Gordon Brown pushed through an order for aircraft carriers simply because his own constituents would be building them, when did a singular and coherent strategic rationale ever actually guide miltech spending?
4. aren't submarines, aircraft carriers, fighters, bombers, tanks and armoured vehicles all immensely vulnerable and so expensive now that they can no longer be put in harm's way?
5. how is the UK industrial wasteland ever going to be able to rearm?
6. can you see the queue of people signing up for military service?