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  The armed forces need to be bigger to protect Britain's interests. Just defending 'our island' is not enough, besides, the army is not big enough to do that anyway. We have trade interests, allies to support and even just defending the UK 'homeland' cannot be done by the forces sitting in the UK.
  
  The government is making the same mistake we have made time and time again, cutting back the standing army and then being on the 'back foot' when conflict arises. It happened before WW1, before WW2 and goi9ng back further, before the Napoleonic war and before Crimea. Indeed it happened before the Falklands, a war that helped prove how wrong cutting the forces is.
  
  You cannot just whistle up a well trained modern forces just like that along with the sophisticated equipment they need to operate. Any future conflict will have to be fought with whatever forces and equipment we have to hand. No second chances in future, no time get get it right after getting it wrong in peace. This is a world in which the only certain thing is that the unexpected will happen...

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