Theme : national_security
- Armed Forces ‘are so overstretched they will need a decade to recover’ The Armed Forces are “running on empty”, overstretched by the long-running operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a report on the state of the military. “The conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have seriously diminished the ability of the Armed Forces to meet future challenges,” the think-tank Demos said. With such pressures affecting the Forces, the current situation was “unsustainable – financially, organisationally, operationally and in terms of military-society relations”. from : charlieedwards 5th November 2007