Begging from America – the price of protectionist defence acquisition  

According to the Telegraph, the Royal Navy may have to borrow US fighter jets. So much for protectionist defence procurement giving us sovereignty of supply.Instead, the Defence Industrial Strategy squanders what resources we do have on overpriced kit we could buy cheaper elsewhere .... leaving us to beg for kit to fill the gaps. Spending the defence budget in the interests of crony capitalism is not patriotic. It's stupid. What chance that the Defence Industrial Strategy is scrapped in all but name later this year? If we want to remain a military power, it's got to go....