What the brigadier wrote was so disturbing, however, that a senior MOD official stamped the words ‘UK Eyes Only’ at the top and bottom of each page of his report and decreed that it should remain classified for at least 100 years.
He warned that the British military’s financial struggles were becoming visible on the ground, citing the UK’s likely inability to fully participate in Exercise Hedgehog – one of NATO’s largest training operations in the region – this coming May.
FACT: Legally, a peacekeeping force cannot be deployed by any nation: only the United Nations has the power to deploy such a force. To do so, the deployment must be unanimously agreed upon.
Just six per cent of army uniforms were made in Britain last year under manufacturing contracts worth £5million while £75million worth of production was outsourced to India, China and Eastern Europe.
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