Can only front line service cuts save Defence expenditure?
Brown, C.
(2010).
Can only front line service cuts save Defence expenditure?
(2010).
Can only front line service cuts save Defence expenditure?
Defence cannot be exempt from the coalition government’s emergency budget, and the ‘pain’ that David Cameron has promised. Professor Christopher Brown of LSE’s International Relations department takes a look at what might be cut – and finds that the ‘big-ticket’ items such as the Eurofighter and Trident might not be easy to cancel.