UK at a decision-point on land warfare

Britain's defence rethink needs to restore the army's fighting power

With the new Defence Command Paper pencilled for June, the British government is facing a decision point on the future of the UK’s land warfare capabilities.

The worst outcome would be a decision to further downgrade the army, on the grounds that – as the CDS Admiral Sir Tony Radakin put it last December – the UK is an “expeditionary, not a continental …