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Subject: Actually I don't think the government's to blame on this one.

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Nick (UK)

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Date Posted: 13:04:49 12/17/04 Fri
In reply to: Dave (UK) 's message, "Hoon's axe falls" on 13:36:41 12/16/04 Thu

To be fair I hear from within the Officer ranks of the KOSB that the new Scottish regiment has been entirely driven through by the reforming zeal of the current army top brass. In fact Blair tried to wriggle out of it but they wouldn't have it, so I'm afraid the government isn'treally to blame. Even if the defence budget were increased, I'm not sure it would save the regiments.

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[> [> Subject: The whole reorganisation stems from the MoD's Defence Review white paper
Author: Dave (UK) [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 13:10:19 12/17/04 Fri which was made in Whitehall and will affect all the services... The Army is just the beginning... [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

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Nick (UK)
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Date Posted: 13:21:25 12/17/04 Fri

I'm not happy about losing regiments, but change has always been necessary in the armed forces, and has always happened. The important thing is that the military is made more effective for its future role rather than less. That's up to the 'experts' at the MoD to try to achieve, within the limited resources that a peacetime society is willing to spend. It was ever thus.

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