Well, he must have done. Only a few weeks back I was advocating that what might be called the regular fighting forces on land, sea and air be cut back and instead money diverted to what I call e-warfare. So, today, according to The Telegraph, Dave follows Cpl. (ret'd) Duff's excellent advice:
The Armed Forces must adapt to deal with “unseen enemies”, David Cameron says as he announces a £1.1 billion investment in the military to tackle new threats to national security. The Prime Minister will say that spending on “intelligence and surveillance” equipment, such as drones, is a “national necessity”.
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The new military funding package, to be outlined when the Prime Minister visits the Farnborough International Air Show, includes an extra £800 million investment in an intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance package. [My emphasis]
Of course, £800 million is peanuts compared to what is required to make our e-warfare services effective in both defence and offense. Still, it's a beginning. Now what they have to do is sack even more generals, admirals and air marshalls and then, regretfully, lay off yet more line infantry which will mean the disappearance of many old and fine regimental names. But it must be done and the eventual savings put into turning a very much smaller British army into a self-contained special forces formation. In other words, all recruits will have to pass stringent special forces type selection courses before being accepted. Our army needs to be smaller, fitter, tougher and trained to the very highest degree on the new types of 21st century weapon systems.
Through gritted fingers, if that is quite the expression as I type this out, let me suggest you watch Channel 4 tonight and over the next few weeks as they show the selection course for the Royal Marine Commandos. (Of ocurse, they won't be showing the hair dryers, curlers, nail varnish remover and all the other stuff marines need in the field but take the word of an ex-Para - they have it!)