Why the British Army ‘wouldn’t last 10 days in a war’
The British Army would run out of munitions within ten days of war breaking out, a former defence minister has told MPs.
John Spellar, who served as armed forces minister between 1999 and 2001, told Parliament: “The minister rightly speaks about the ability to sustain fighting, he knows that an exercise conducted with the Americans showed that the British Army would run out of munitions within ten days.”
Responding, the outgoing armed forces minister James Heappey said: “In exercises that I have seen where the UK have operated alongside the US what happens again and again and again is that American senior commanders hold the UK force elements in the highest of regard.”
In this video, Andrew Marr is joined by Lieutenant General Sir Simon Mayall to discuss what this means for the future of the British Army.
Credit to : LBC