The Coming DND Budget Cut

[Haggis]

There's a reason there are still 5 x Guards (Infantry) Regiments in the UK

One for each castle?

 

[daftandbarmy]

One for each castle?

Dude, not even close.

That's why they have to drag other regiments in to help with all the important 'guarding' that must take place (like 1 PARA, when we were in Edinburgh 'guarding' Hollyrood etc)

List of British royal residences - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[FJAG]

Once you invest in that many bearskins and scarlet tunics then you're pretty much committed.

 

[CBH99]

Not to mention it would hurt our ability to rotate troops through workup/deployment, and rest/reconstitution cycles. If we shank the forces, we would burn our people out. If anything we need to cut our bureaucratic tail and trade it for military teeth. Our bureaucracy has expanded exponentially without a correlation to defense output, infsct our output has gone down id argue.

Oh absolutely. I don’t think anybody would, or even could, disagree with you.

The bigger the bureaucracy, the more resources it consumes. Less for the pointy end.

 

[CBH99]

Not to mention it would hurt our ability to rotate troops through workup/deployment, and rest/reconstitution cycles. If we shank the forces, we would burn our people out. If anything we need to cut our bureaucratic tail and trade it for military teeth. Our bureaucracy has expanded exponentially without a correlation to defense output, infsct our output has gone down id argue.

Oh absolutely. I don’t think anybody would, or even could, disagree with you.

The bigger the bureaucracy, the more resources it consumes. Less for the pointy end.