> in a speech on reserves at the royal united services institute, alistair carns, the minister for veterans, said: "in a war of scale - not a limited intervention, but one similar to ukraine - our army for example on the current casualty rates would be expended, as part of a broader multinational coalition, in six months to a year," he added. > "that doesn't mean to say we need a bigger army, but it does mean we must be able to generate depth and mass rapidly in the event of a crisis." once again they manipulate the notion of "crisis". nhs can't cope with covid (not a crisis), so we shut most of it down (successfully prevent a crisis). prisons are full (not a crisis), so we release prisoners early (successfully prevent a crisis). our army could be wiped out within a year in the upcoming world war (not a crisis), so we keep it the same size and set some more recruitment targets for the reserves (successfully prevent a crisis).
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