The UK government’s decision to go ahead with planned troop cuts despite the war in Ukraine is “madness” and will put the British Army at “breaking point,” a former army chief has warned.
At the NATO summit in Madrid last week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the government will increasing its defence spending to 2.5 percent of GDP by the end of the decade.
But the government said it is still going ahead with the decision to cut the army by 10,000 soldiers over the next few years, which was set out in last year’s Integrated Review.
Gen. Lord Dannatt, former head of the British Army, said on July 3: “It’s a mere fact of life we’ll break the remainder of our army if our army is not large enough … to do what the government of the day wants us to do.”…