Britain of course has Trident; a sub-launched nuclear deterrent. But it’s good that US nukes are arriving at RAF Lakenheath.
The U.K. is moving towards 3% of GDP spending on the armed forces. But IMHO it’s nowhere near enough. In 1952 it was 11%, but drifted down to 7% by 1959.
Over the decades since then it went down to 2.3%, but at last it’s on the turn.
The minimum must be 5%.
The land army was 3.5m at the end of WW2, but politicians have let it decline to 150,000 + reserves.
It needs to be 300,000 absolute minimum if we are going to help Ukraine in the future.
Britain of course has Trident; a sub-launched nuclear deterrent. But it’s good that US nukes are arriving at RAF Lakenheath.
The U.K. is moving towards 3% of GDP spending on the armed forces. But IMHO it’s nowhere near enough. In 1952 it was 11%, but drifted down to 7% by 1959.
Over the decades since then it went down to 2.3%, but at last it’s on the turn.
The minimum must be 5%.
The land army was 3.5m at the end of WW2, but politicians have let it decline to 150,000 + reserves.
It needs to be 300,000 absolute minimum if we are going to help Ukraine in the future.