Britain’s Navy no longer rules the waves. Decades of defense cuts have reduced the once proud fleet which commanded all the world’s seas to a modest NATO auxiliary force specializing in anti-submarine warfare.
Now, the Telegraph reports that Labour intends to reduce the Navy by more than half.
Ministers have drawn up confidential proposals to slash the number of ships in the Royal Navy, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose.
The Ministry of Defence has produced a plan to decommission five warships from next April, which would reduce the Navy’s capability to the level where it could carry out only “one small-scale operation”.
Separate documentation from inside the department suggests that the total number of ships in the Navy and Royal Fleet Auxiliary could fall from the present level of 103 to 76 in 2017 and only 50 in 2027 — a reduction of more than half. …
under the plan the Navy, once the pride of the Armed Forces, would be unable to provide anything like the 1982 Falklands task force.
Scott D
I guess if your plan is to surrender or delegate your defense to others, investing in armed forces is somewhat of a waste.
Banjo
The Brits have made the cold-blooded calculation that if Uncle Sam is willing to do it, they can put their money to use on something else.
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