Standard inflation isn't a relevant measure in the defence sector as the increasingly technological nature of military equipment means that defence inflation runs well above RPI. This means that defence spending has been cut in real terms every year of this government. It has also fallen as a % of total spending as the following chart shows.
It's worth noting that we've had a couple of wars on the go recently as well. Going to war is far more expensive than not going to war and this massive increase in expenditure has not been matched by an increase in funding.
Brown says that he gave the defence chiefs everything that they asked for, they say he didn't. I know who I believe.
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A future fair for all has compiled a short and snappy dossier explaining why Gordon Brown misrepresented defence funding to the Chilcot inquiry, and what military heads think of it: http://futurefairforall.org/post/430224381/gordon-browns-defence-spending-untruths-to-chilcot
"Brown says that he gave the defence chiefs everything that they asked for, they say he didn't. I know who I believe."
All the generals have to do to [prove Brown wrong is to come up with a request that was turned down.
They've huffed and puffed, just like you and the opposition parties, but they haven't produced one example of an urgent request for money that Brown or the Treasury refused.
Politicians aren't military men. If the military say the need something and the politicians give it, it cannot be the politicians fault if what was asked for turns out not to be the thing that was needed.
Maybe you should be examining the Chiefs of Staff and what they asked of the politicians and why it was not what they actually needed...
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