We are firmly on the right track at the MoD  

It’s been a tumultuous year at MoD but as the ministerial team looks back on what’s been achieved, we all feel we’ve laid the foundations for a much more stable future for Defence. It can’t be said too often that we inherited a grossly over-committed budget that meant we would have had to make cuts to programmes and capabilities just to live within our means. But the need for Defence to make a contribution to deficit reduction meant those cuts had to be sharper still. I know there are many people who feel Defence should have been exempt from reductions, but to them I simply say that there is no point in trying to defend a bankrupt country. So in the last year we have had a Strategic Defence and Security Review that began the process of aligning our resources with our commitments. We always knew that, after so many years of neglect, it would take more than one SDSR...