article_snippet: We are hovering around this figure and forecasts suggest We will shortly fall below the threshold.
article_snippet: Yet the Coalition continues to make cuts, as starkly demonstrated by the decision to replace 20,000 Army regulars with 30,000 reservists.
article_snippet: The Royal Navy has been reduced to 19 surface ships.
article_snippet: The last strategic defence review suggested a minimum of 30.
article_snippet: The scrapping of the RAF’s venerable Nimrod means we are without a maritime patrol aircraft.