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Richard North is for ever going on about the MSM not being up to the job of reporting, and if today’s article in the Telegraph is anything to go by, with good cause, to my knowledge Dr North has been arguing for a redistribution of military funding for at least the last two years. But even today Allan Mallison had to be politely corrected by Dr North`s son, because although Mallison did get to mention the spend on futuristic procurement demands are hampering the our forces in the battles they are being asked to fight in the present, he did not get to the point of exploring the real reasons, hence the comment Peter North And not a mention of the 14billion reserved for FRES.

EU Referendum

Defence of the Realm

To win Iraq war, we must fight properly - Telegraph

If we are going to win these wars, a serious remodelling of the Army is necessary, and its support of the Navy and the RAF, too.

We need our own surge - more soldiers, more regiments, more marines, more special forces, more helicopters, more surveillance aircraft, more shallow-water craft.

And the equipment we are currently fighting with needs every improvement that QinetiQ can come up with - fire suppressants in aircraft, explosives counter-measures, and all the other devices that coroners and military boards of inquiry have identified this past year.

So, how is it to be paid for? Gordon Brown must switch the priority to the needs of the war we are actually in and then all the service chiefs can then trust to is an incoming Tory government brave enough to make an overall adjustment to public spending, thus finding the extra money to reinstate the long-term projects.