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Posted: 1/21/2015 2:41:03 AM EDT
With all that is going on around the world, this looks like a good idea.






MoD 'looking at cutting Army to 60,000' says former minister







Sir Nick Harvey, former Armed Forces minister,






says the MoD is considering
 radically cutting the number of soldiers because it faces an impending
 "financial crunch”







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The rest here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/11358037/MoD-looking-at-cutting-Army-to-60000-says-former-minister.html










 
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With all that is going on around the world, this looks like a good idea.

MoD 'looking at cutting Army to 60,000' says former minister

Sir Nick Harvey, former Armed Forces minister, says the MoD is considering   radically cutting the number of soldiers because it faces an impending   "financial crunch”

   
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http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02993/troops_2993056b.jpgSir Nick Harvey said the possibility of a 60,000-strong Army was being looked at under "background scoping work" which has already begun in preparation for this year's strategic defence and security review. Photo: Getty








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By Ben Farmer, Defence Correspondent


5:28PM GMT 20 Jan 2015




 A Whitehall row has erupted after a former defence minister said officials   were secretly looking at dramatically cutting the British Army to as few as   60,000 soldiers.


Sir Nick Harvey said the radical reduction was being examined by the Ministry   of Defence because the department faces an impending "financial crunch”   after the election.


The Liberal Democrat MP, who was Armed Forces minister until 2012, said   possible cuts were being tested because the defence budget was likely to be   badly hit again by austerity cuts made by any new parliament.


Under the Government’s current Army reforms, the number of regular soldiers is   already being cut from 102,000 to 82,000, while the number of reservists is   growing to 30,000.


The Ministry of Defence denied it was looking at further reductions and said   the Prime Minister was committed to maintaining the Army at its 82,000   level. But Sir Nick later stood by his claims and maintained he had been   told by several sources that possible reductions were being analysed in   preparation for this year’s defence review.


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Sir Nick told MPs: "There are already paper exercises going on in looking   at what an Army of just 60,000 would look like because of the financial   crunch that the department is going to be facing."

Last year the Chief of the Defence Staff, Gen Sir Nick Houghton, said he would   "fix my bayonet and fight to the last," to prevent further Army   cuts.

More cuts to the Army were last night attacked as "foolhardy in the extreme”.

Military leaders fear a defence review scheduled for after the election will   see a repeat of 2010’s biting austerity cuts to the military budget.





The rest here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/11358037/MoD-looking-at-cutting-Army-to-60000-says-former-minister.html


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is it just me or is something not right?
Link Posted: 1/21/2015 2:43:27 AM EDT
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Those bloody fools
Link Posted: 1/21/2015 2:44:37 AM EDT
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This thread format is all fucked up!
Link Posted: 1/21/2015 2:45:47 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 1/21/2015 2:47:47 AM EDT
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I don't know what happened. I tried to fix it.
Link Posted: 1/21/2015 2:49:39 AM EDT
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wow, 60,000 troops. That would be really, really stupid.
Link Posted: 1/21/2015 2:55:58 AM EDT
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OP embed some malicious code?

That OP fucked up the website formatting when ever I open the tread.
Link Posted: 1/21/2015 3:07:21 AM EDT
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I fixed it. Now if NWhiker would just edit out his copy of my post, all would be good.

Link Posted: 1/21/2015 3:24:34 AM EDT
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What the hell?  What happened?  Is it bad code in the OP that's dicking up the rest of the page?  Or did Goatboy not sacrifice the right chicken to the server god?
Link Posted: 1/21/2015 3:26:53 AM EDT
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What the hell?  What happened?  Is it bad code in the OP that's dicking up the rest of the page?  Or did Goatboy not sacrifice the right chicken to the server god?
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The OP is fixed, it is the guy who quoted my first post, who needs to edit out his quote of my original post.



 
Link Posted: 1/21/2015 3:31:09 AM EDT
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Well, I've never seen this before...
Link Posted: 1/21/2015 3:31:18 AM EDT
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What the hell is going on
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