This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Urgently review and reverse, proposed DEFENCE CUTS/ ‘ONE ARMY’ CONCEPT
Immediately and Urgently:
1. Reverse dangerously ( ill considered) Planned Defence Cuts
2. Recognise the significant inadequacies of the ‘One Army’ concept.
3: Increase Military Forces Levels (Strengths and Equipment), to reflect all realistic current threats
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Regular Forces have been depleted over many Governments, in part due to the supposed !Peace Dividend’ of the late 20th Century.
The Ukraine conflict, and Russia, et al’s resurgent aggression, military ambition, and asymmetric attack policy/ strategy, require UK to ensure that OUR ‘military response capability’ is adequate to ANY (reasonably) predictable events including Armed Hostility, and Natural Disasters.
The world is now more dangerous, than it has been for many decades!
This petition was rejected
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK Government or Parliament to do.
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