Riding on the Storm: the New British Defense Strategy

... in the army after the withdrawal from Iraq in 2009 were of course reasonable but the cuts in hardware, primarily in the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force, have produced long-term negative effects on the nation's defense capabilities, increasing the need ... ... only for an asymmetric war, while Colonel Macgregor's concept is intended for use against the Russian army. Royal Air Force Aviation is the favorite Western armed service, although after the SDSR 2010, the British Air Force has definitely been in dire ...