U.K. Details Defense Topline Plan

By Robert Wall

LONDON — The British government’s Comprehensive Spending Review specifies a £35.7 billion ($56 billion) defense topline spending budget for fiscal years 2010-2011, with slight increases in the coming two years before a reversal again sets in.

Having already rolled out its National Security Strategy on Oct. 18 and a laundry list of program cuts in the Strategic ...

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