The UK’s most senior military figure has admitted the armed forces are not ready for a full-scale conflict “of the kind we might face”, warning he lacked the immediate funding for a rapid modernisation of the military.
Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton, chief of the defence staff, told a committee of MPs on Monday that the military faced an in-year budget shortfall and would have to make difficult decisions, at a time when warnings of the threat from Russia have grown.
“We are not as ready as we need to be for the kind of full-scale conflict that we might face,” Knighton told the parliamentary defence committee.
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