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Assessing Defence: What Will The New Administration Bring?
As an all-Conservative cabinet gets its feet firmly under the table at Downing Street, the next Strategic Defence and Security Review is just around the corner, with a battle ensuing between Whitehall departments for funding.
One MP, Colonel Bob Stewart, has told Forces TV that he wants to chair the powerful Defence Select Committee and fight to keep defence spending at two per cent of GDP.
Over the last five years the Conservatives have presided over major cuts in defence spending, the number of military personnel falling by more than 40,000 to around 160,000. Within the British Army numbers have fallen from 102,000 to 82,000.
David Cameron has, however, promised that he will allow no more reductions in the size of the regular Army.
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