Article: Armed forces at breaking point, says academic.

Article: WE'RE LOSING THE BATTLE; Armed forces 'at ...
The Journal (Newcastle, England);  November 5, 2007 ;     481 words ... ... WARNINGS that Britain's armed forces have reached breaking point were sounded last night by ... Univeristy says the British armed forces have been let down by "under ... Government continues to ignore the armed forces, they will not be fit for ...

Article: Parliament: Defence - Blair's global ambitions `stretching ...
The Independent - London;  January 17, 2002 ;     539 words ... ... yesterday of stretching Britain's armed forces to breaking point to serve his "global ambitions ... unsustainable burden was being imposed on the armed forces. "If we are going to use the armed forces for a much wider nation-building ...

Article: Our ailing Armed Forces are at 'breaking ...
The Daily Mail (London, England);  September 17, 2008 ;     664 words ... ... Matthew Hickley BRITAIN'S defences are 'in crisis' and the Armed Forces need urgent funds if they are to protect the nation properly ... chiefs. The study warns that the British military is close to breaking point at the very time when forces need strengthening to cope with ...

Article: Our forces are all too close to breaking point ; ...
Western Daily Press (Bristol UK);  July 4, 2008 ;     529 words ...The armed forces are stretched to breaking point by the strain of fighting two ... per cent in 2006. Britain's armed forces and their families suffered ... below strength, while all three armed forces were a total of 5,390 personnel ...

Article: No more cuts: our armed forces are at ...
The Independent - London;  March 17, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... the end of the Cold War, the British armed forces and their civilian support have been ... But with each new initiative, the armed forces have less resilience. First a cut in ... factory can be measured by its output. Armed forces, in the end, are tested against unforeseen ...

Article: Operation Overstretch ; Britain's armed forces are ...
The Independent on Sunday;  March 4, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... not be spared, it appeared that the demands on Britain's armed forces were becoming unsustainable. One officer countered this ... approaching normality". But Louise Heywood, head of the British armed forces programme at the Royal United Services Institute, the military ...

Article: FOCUS CAN WE DEFEND OURSELVES?: Crisis in the front line The ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  August 3, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... will listen that spending on the Armed Forces is already at its lowest level ... parts of the services are near breaking-point. Others say that is precisely ... excellence - and weakness - of our armed forces. "1 Div", as it is known ...