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Army’s ‘embarrassingly’ small tank fleet would last two weeks in war with Russia

Army’s ‘embarrassingly’ small tank fleet would last two weeks in war with Russia

Sir Richard, who served as Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe, said in 1997 Britain could field a war-fighting division of 20,000 well-equipped troops. But he said that a decade of cuts had left the Army “decimated”, which now required “real emergency treatment” . ‘Ammunition in short supply’ Speaking on the BBC’s Today programme, he said;...