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By the sounds of it, these problems have had thirty years to metastasize so we ought to fix them quickly, no matter how much it costs (although as I understand it, a fair bit of harm was already done back in 1966 with the "White Paper"). To an extent I can understand closing down the Royal Arms...

The redevelopment of our ship building capabilities is absolutely imperative to not just the Royal Navy but the British economy as well. We are an island nation, maritime matters should be our specialty. However, as you've noted, a lot of these old sites have fallen into disrepair and...

Pretty much. Why do government's have to be so brain dead? They're hardly uneducated.

In the grand scheme of things they hardly save anything as well. For a country that gets eight hundred billion pounds in revenue and borrows billions more, a few hundred million here or there really is nothing. I feel like, in order to save peanuts that just get eaten up as tiny morsels by our...

Oh of course. We need to bring back the walk in recruitment centres of old so as to help fix our recruitment issues, because Capita have been a disaster. Yet another attempt to "modernise" where it really wasn't needed.

Well, here's a general idea of what I'd go for. Overall, the British Armed Forces would be increased to approximately two hundred and fifty thousand men. Navy and Air Force would be beefed up to forty thousand a piece, whilst the army would have one hundred and seventy thousand men. So, you...

Given the current state of the Royal Navy, I think we might need more of everything. I also reckon a fully fledged CATOBAR carrier (tentatively titled, HMS Duke of York) would be an invaluable addition to the fleet. Three super carriers would make the Royal Navy the third most powerful fleet on...

3% of GDP seems to be a bit of a magical number when it comes to modern developed nations and defence spending. Whilst 2% is the bare minimum (gold star for effort bullshit), 3% is very good and means you take defence seriously. However, I do wonder what a country such as my own, Britain, could...