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Write to The Critic by email at letters@thecritic.co.uk including your address and telephone number THINNING THE RANKS In his review of Richard Dannatt and Robert Lyman’s Victory to Defeat (MILITARY HISTORY IS SET TO REPEAT ITSELF, DEC/JAN), Patrick Mercer suggests that the savage cuts to Britain’s defence budget were not a consequence of “a peace dividend once the Soviets had imploded” but rather a calculated decision by Tony Blair’s successors who “had seen Tony Blair unseated and humbled by his decision to go to war in Iraq and took the easier, less obvious option of making the Armed Forces simply incapable of foreign interventions". If mitigating personal political risk by emasculating the means of fighting in foreign wars was David Cameron’s intention, why did he jump at the first opportunity that…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2024

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