U.K. Awaits Major Defense Cuts

By Francis Tusa
London

I’m relieved that we have actually got a government in place, and it looks to be pretty robust,” a senior U.K. military source said in the aftermath of the coalition deal between the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties, following the inconclusive general election on May 6. There had been considerable fear that days or weeks of deal-making between the various political parties would lead to government gridlock, and that this would have had an ...

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