Defence spending may drop after Brexit.

"Economic changes after the vote to leave the European Union could see the defence budget reduced in real terms, a committee of MPs and peers says.

The Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy says security review planning, conducted once or twice a decade, should begin "immediately"."

So if you're in charge of theoretical SDSR16, where would your axe fall? How much more of a hammering can we take?

Oh, and you're not allowed to touch manpower levels apparently "[T]he committee says that "the manpower fielded by the UK armed forces is inadequate bearing in mind the range, complexity and potential concurrency of tasks expected of them".".

Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36756877

 

[muttywhitedog]

Don't tak this the wrong way, but you would rather end up with a mass of rather "linear thinking" and not exactly commercially minded individuals.

Like cost.

Isnt that exactly what we have now, (linear thinking) service instructors with recent(ish) experience, supplemented by Civilians who have experience, but often the experience isn't relevant to the demands on the modern-day military.