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Douglas Barrie, who used to work with us here at Aviation Week as our London Bureau Chief, had a commentary in last week's Aviation Week & Space Technology entitled U.K. Defense Spending On Same Old Trajectory. This paragraph gives you a sense of where Douglas is coming from: There has been the usual Punch and Judy-show politicking. The Conservative-led coalition government repeatedly reminded anyone within earshot of the defense-budgetary “chaos we inherited” from Labour. They are correct, up to a point. But there should be a salutary lesson in Labour's brave prognostications of the 1998 SDR having ended up a decade later as little more than a promissory note and an admission there was no more money. Defense procurement machinations have a habit of crushing the most capable and best-intentioned plans. Give the piece a read, and then give us your opinion: Is the UK managing to cut it's defense budget and still provide for needs, or are their gaps in the plan?
Douglas Barrie, who used to work with us here at Aviation Week as our London Bureau Chief, had a commentary in last week's Aviation Week & Space Technology entitled U.K. Defense Spending On Same Old Trajectory.
This paragraph gives you a sense of where Douglas is coming from:
There has been the usual Punch and Judy-show politicking. The Conservative-led coalition government repeatedly reminded anyone within earshot of the defense-budgetary “chaos we inherited” from Labour. They are correct, up to a point. But there should be a salutary lesson in Labour's brave prognostications of the 1998 SDR having ended up a decade later as little more than a promissory note and an admission there was no more money. Defense procurement machinations have a habit of crushing the most capable and best-intentioned plans.
Give the piece a read, and then give us your opinion: Is the UK managing to cut it's defense budget and still provide for needs, or are their gaps in the plan?
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