Navy chief: Britain cannot keep up its role in Libya air war due to cuts

[QuintanarooBoy]

Source: The Telegraph

Adml Sir Mark Stanhope said the campaign would have been more effective without the Government's defence cuts. The aircraft carrier and the Harrier jump-jets scrapped under last year's strategic defence review would have made the mission more effective, faster and cheaper, he said.

Sir Mark warned that the Navy would not be able to sustain its operations in Libya for another three months without making cuts elsewhere.

The First Sea Lord's comments will stir the debate over defence cuts that have left Britain without a working aircraft carrier and forced the Royal Navy's Harrier jump jets to be mothballed.

Highlighting military anger over the shrinking Armed Forces, another admiral warned that "comical" defence cuts would leave the Navy without enough ships to be effective.

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8573849/Navy-chief-Britain-cannot-keep-up-its-role-in-Libya-air-war-due-to-cuts.html

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Brittania is a great encyclopedia.

[iwishiwas]

1. So, now the US willl carry more of the costs no doubt!!

[Yon_Yonson]

2. The cost of nation building is not cheap as so many failed attempts have proven

[iwishiwas]

3. I know and I do not approve of this new war.

[bahrbearian]

4. I hope our Hawks take heed.

[lovuian]

5. Even England has its limits on how much the Military takes

put of their budget

Reality will set in on the US WAR MACHINE

it has gobbled up all of the money of America

and Failed