Following the Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR), the Ministry of Defence (MOD) is about to conclude an extremely challenging further savings exercise in order to correctly balance military forces with the finances available. This will involve some very difficult decisions affecting people’s careers and military capabilities. Key decisions are likely to have to be made on 25 January 2011 and 10 February 2011 by the Defence Board. Those charged with deciding the outcome include senior leaders in defence especially the Chief of the Defence Staff and the Permanent Under Secretary for Defence and Service Chiefs. The Prime Minister, addressing Parliament at the outset of the SDSR stated ‘We are the sixth largest economy in the world. Even after this review we expect to continue with the fourth largest military budget in the world’.

Pray: for wisdom that right decisions are reached for the benefit of the nation and our Service personnel (2Ch.7:14)

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