British forces would struggle to mount small military intervention, claim officers

British forces would struggle to mount even a small scale military intervention as the cupboard for resources was threadbare.
 
The chances of an operation to rescue civilians from conflicts like Libya would become remote as more and more equipment is pushed out of service under defence cuts. 
 
Instead of supporting defence the ConDem government will cuts supplies and decimate civilian jobs that offer value for money support and committment to the front line; jobs and defence support will either be sold off or cut. 
 
Military experts wrote to the Prime Minister on the 29th January 2011, as detailed in The Telegraph today saying that "The publicly declared proposition that ‘the risks inherent in the currently envisaged Defence structure are acceptable’ seems to us to be unduly trusting in an uncertain, fast moving and dangerous world". 
 
It is clear that the government is not listening to anyone other that the people and companies that fund them.
 
It is time for our government to listen to the ordinary workers whose lives they are destroying through the politically driven public sector cuts.