Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) spends twice as much on its estate as it does on the UK’s nuclear deterrent, a parliamentary committee revealed in its latest report, in which it slammed the ministry’s “disastrous lack of estate strategy.” In 2019–20, the MoD spent £4.6 billion ($6.3 billion) on the UK’s “defence estate,” around twice the annual cost of maintaining the country’s nuclear deterrent, according to a report published on Tuesday by the Public Accounts Committee of the House of Commons. The defence estate includes the MoD’s training and accommodation buildings and facilities, covers 1.5 percent of the UK landmass, and is valued at £36 billion ($49 billion). Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, deputy chair of the committee, said, “Our report indicates that there is a disastrous lack of estate strategy within the MoD which is taking an unnecessarily large amount of resources from the front line, and not even delivering decent …