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STAFF GUIDANCE ON DEFENCE RESTRUCTURING
1. This guidance is being issued to remedy a perceived
difficulty experienced by Staff at all levels in understanding the
rationale behind recent Defence re-structuring. In particular many
Staff Officers seem not to understand how reducing the numbers of
aircraft, ships, tanks, artillery and soldiers results in a more
flexible, robust and effective fighting force.
2. In particular it seems that much of the confusion stems from a
systemic misunderstanding of the correct use of military terminology.
A list of common terms and actual meanings follows.
3. In addition there follows an explanation of the key
assumptions embedded within the Defence Review. All Staff Officers are
encouraged to seek clarification through their Chain of Command if
they still have any questions.
4. Staff Terminology used in the new Defence Plan;
Flexible- a. Smaller. b. unable to operate unless under US
"protection"
Robust- a. Smaller b. Lacking reserves or regeneration capability
Networked- Smaller, but still unable to talk to each other
Capable- Smaller
Agile- Really, really small
Deployability- Method of making the Forces, primarily the Army, able
to send higher percentages of their manpower to a distant location.
Efficient- Much, much smaller
Streamlined- Just unbelievably small
Just in time- For the funeral.
Integrated- Process by which all three services get to brief
against each other in public leaks, attempting to justify and defend
them. Taken to extremes by the Army in which Corps and Regiments fight
each other, and perfected within the Infantry.
technically ambitious when he tried to drive that car through the
Reserves- Integral part of current Operational Manning.
Rationalisation- a. Cuts b. Psychological term, meaning to
use complicated arguments to avoid facing unpalatable truths, i.e. ,
Modernisation- Cuts
Radical- Deep Cuts
Transformation- Really Deep Cuts
Sustainable- Assuming zero casualties, no leave and no
emergencies.
deployable, agile, joint and integrated, technically ambitious defence
Officer once the above definitions are applied.
following Planning Principles. Point C will be of particular relevance
in explaining the rationale behind restructuring to Junior Staff.
a. Use of Special Forces. No one in the general Public has a clue
how many there are, so they can be announced as deploying to every
country in the world.
b. Aggressive use of terminology can compensate for lack of actual
forces. For example in the past effective deterrence of a reasonably
capable Maritime threat would require the despatch of a task force,
consisting of destroyers, frigates, submarines and possibly even a
carrier. In the future this task will still be achieved by a task
force; but task-force will be the new description for a mine-sweeper.
c. The new Defence Plan was not resource driven. A comprehensive
strategic estimate was conducted, from first principles, identifying
allowing a reserve for the unexpected, and also allowing for recurrent
non-warfighting tasks such as Fire Strike cover and Foot and Mouth
disease. Against the tasks identified an ideal manpower establishment
and Task Org was then identified. By an amazing coincidence it
happened to fit almost exactly within current Treasury MOD expenditure
plans, and even allow the MOD to carry half the costs of Iraq and
Afghanistan.
d. Much of the current crisis in Defence Spending can be directly
traced to the high costs of legacy equipments. These were ordered at a
time of ignorance in the past when Planners naively seemed to believe
that the threat they identified as imminent would remain the same for
the 20-30 year service life of the equipment they were ordering. The
would be needed in the future was ridiculous, as none of these
equipments have been used by the British Armed forces to any degree
since the Falklands war.
However, current planners possess better foresight and are able to
predict future threats for at least the next 40 years. We are
therefore able to be certain that Britain is unlikely to need any
tanks, aircraft, submarines etc. past about 2015.
e. Britain no longer needs a significant anti-submarine
capability. No other nation possesses submarines in any numbers,
submarine technology is unlikely to advance at all over the next few
30 years, and should anti-submarine technology or skills be required
at any point in the future they can be reconstituted overnight from
the reserves. (Once the reserves have been reconstituted). In any case
by 2020 the UK will be fully integrated into mainland Europe, and will
therefore no longer have a coastline to defend or be reliant upon
sea-supply.
f. Similar arguments apply to air defence.
g. The Regimental System. In the past the Regimental System has
been seen as the corner-stone of British Military success, creating a
system in which the individual is made to feel part of a greater
family, often stretching back hundreds of years, in which he is
nurtured and developed, and to which he feels such great loyalty that
he is inspired to sacrifice himself if need be for his Regimental
comrades. However, the British youth of today are so naturally
self-sacrificing and community spirited that additional incentives are
now unnecessary, and in any case the threat to soldiers on the ground
has been assumed away. There is therefore no further need for a system
whose main purpose is to generate fighting spirit, and it can be
safely emasculated to achieve administrative efficiency (see
h. High divorce rates within the Services will solve manpower
crises, by ensuring all service personnel will be happy to conduct
back-to-back tours forever, as no one will have any families or
friends to miss.
i. Savings will be ploughed into the purchase of large numbers of
hats. This will be essential as in future everyone will be at least
treble or quadruple hatted. Wars will be fought in rotation on a
k. Future savings will be made by abolishing all training for the
at manoeuvre warfare, disruption, dislocation or divide-and-rule as
the Treasury.
l. Successive efficiency measures can be made to reinforce each
other. For example, each time troop numbers are cut, a unit can then
be tasked to conduct the same jobs as before. Provided there are no
actual massacres of Friendly Forces, the new troop numbers can be seen
to have been fully as effective as the previous numbers, and so can
form a baseline for achieving efficiency cuts to new troop numbers.
Savings can then be invested in new equipment, in the same way that
British Airways fires half its pilots every time it needs to buy a new
plane. The ultimate aim is to have one man, but equipped like Dr
Octopus. He will sleep with one eye open at all times to replicate
full manning.
m. Key Assumptions: Current levels of operations are an
aberration, will never be repeated, and should form no guide to
current manning requirements, let alone future ones. Gerry Adams has
embraced peace, there is no more requirement for crowd control in
Northern Ireland, the FBU have forsworn strikes along with all other
key public workers, Osama Bin Laden is about to hand himself in and
the Easter Bunny will be providing Area Air Defence for London.
{CHOtS SIGNED}
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