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Hamish de Bretton-Gordon OBE was a British Army officer for 23 years, reaching the rank of colonel. In 1991, he saw active service as a tank commander in Iraq with the 14th/20th King's Hussars as part of the First Gulf War. Afterwards, he was made commanding officer of the UK's Joint Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Regiment, and NATO's Rapid Reaction CBRN Battalion. He has also worked in war zones including Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria, and was one of the first experts onto the scene in Salisbury after the Novichok poisonings.
He is also the author of Chemical Warrior: Syria, Salisbury and Saving Lives at War, and his new book, Tank Command - a gripping and unique account of the evolution of tank warfare, produced in collaboration with The Tank Museum.
Tomorrow, Hamish is joining the guys on the show to discuss the state of the British Armed Forces: their battle readiness, morale, weapons stocks, the defence budget, and threats from abroad.
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Is part of the problem with defence in the UK that we talk too much about spending as a % of GDP rather than about what capabilities we should obtain? To me it seems far more sensible that we would commit to being able to field X number of tanks/fighters/artillery systems/infantry battalions/drones and then work out what we need to spend to get there. It seems the current system incentivises creative accounting to make defence spending look bigger than it is rather than to develop genuine combat capability.
I have what’s probably a very disconcerting question. If the UK cannot restore its military capability to project power, should it consider re-negotiating with Argentina the status of the Falkland Islands? It seems possible that in a decade or so Argentina could regain the ability to make a go for them again if their leadership leans heavily into nationalism again. It might be better to get an arrangement of some sort now that might be short of a full turnover than risk an invasion that the UK could no longer counter.