Sarah Ingham: Labour's defence review must face the bald truth that our military is too small

Sarah Ingham: Labour's defence review must face the bald truth that our military is too small

Dr Sarah Ingham is the author of The Military Covenant: its impact on civil-military relations in Britain. Britain’s defence has been fizzing with almost Trumpian Executive Orders levels of energy in the past week. At the weekend came unconfirmed reports abouts a “home guard” to protect Britain’s critical national infrastructure, such as nuclear power stations, from attack. Perhaps the new Dad’s Army could avert incidents like the mysterious fir…