You will increase the size of your Army for the first time since the Cold War.
UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said in an interview published on Saturday by the British newspaper ‘The Telegraph’ that Prime Minister Liz Truss will increase defense spending by at least 52 billion pounds sterling (58 billion pounds). millions of euros). Wallace indicated that in response to Russian aggression Britain will also increase the size of its Army for the first time since the Cold War.
In this regard, he also revealed that the prime minister has made it clear that the government’s priority is to carry out the campaign promise to increase defense spending by 3% of GDP. “One of his clear priorities from Truss is that we are going to invest and spend the money,” she announced before explaining that this budget was worth £100bn by 2030, an increase of £52bn over the current sum.
‘Huge’ payout
This growth of the Armed Forces by the end of the decade represents a “huge” outlay and contrasts with the trend since the 1990s. “It is very likely that we will make the Army bigger, but it may not be the places where your salon generals want you to go, because what we desperately need is, for example, to invest in our intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capacity”, nuanced
For this reason, Wallace was in favor of learning from the “lessons” left by the war in Ukraine. In this sense, he asserted that the important thing is to be able to shoot down drones, because if not, “we will be vulnerable.” “The reality is that we will work with the Treasury to ensure that we have a budget that grows to meet the threat and our ambitions,” he concluded.
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