Summary
THOSE arguing that the Eurofighter / Trident / A400M programmes should be cut to fund to equip more 'boots on the ground' properly in Afghanistan should recall how, at the turn of the Sixties/ Seventies, the government made it clear it would fund either the continuation of the Royal Navy's big carriers or the RAF's F-111 fighter-bomber purchase.
Royal Navy pilots and their Fleet Street supporters gleefully set to knocking the RAF and vice versa. The Treasury lapped it all up -- then cleverly used the counter-arguments to justify cancelling both programmes.See the full content of this document
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Fighters Must Be Retained ; Letters [Edition 3]
We were saved from national disaster only by the remaining carr...
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