RealClearWorld - Britain Bows Out of the Security Game

This should be cautionary. I have believed for years that this is the desired end-state of the American Left. To spend and obligate us into a finacial postion htat we can on longer project power in the world. This strategy not only includes growing already massive social entitlemens, but also in the "patriotic" efforts to expand personnel costs for the military itself, such as education giveaways (Post 9/11 GI Bill) that they know will be passed as a matter of course.

"In announcing the cutbacks, Mr. Cameron promised that Britain would still 'punch above its weight.' His words ring hollow.
The British army, already cut a third since the end of the Cold War, will lose another 7,000 soldiers, dropping to 95,500 Tommies from 102,500, one-sixth the size of the U.S. Army. Also gone will be 40% of the British army's tanks and 35% of its artillery, thus making it very difficult to replicate the sort of armored blitzkrieg that Britain carried out against Iraq in 1991 and 2003. In the future Britain will be able to keep only one brigade of about 7,500 soldiers in the field long-term, well below the number deployed today in Afghanistan."