Can Britain still Defend Itself?
Can Britain still defend itself? It sounds like the sort of question once heard in gloomy pubs from men who owned atlases and distrusted decimalisation. Yet here we are, asking it seriously.
In this episode of Mark and Pete, we look at Britain’s armed forces, the shrinking Army, shortages of personnel, ageing equipment, thin ammunition stocks, delayed defence spending and the uncomfortable possibility that the United Kingdom has spent decades assuming somebody else would deal with the unpleasant bits.
Britain still has nuclear weapons, aircraft carriers, submarines, Typhoon jets, intelligence…
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