ANDREW NEIL: At over £50bn a year, Britain is the world's 6th biggest defence spender. So why are our forces so badly equipped and humiliatingly hollowed out? The answer is that MoD bureaucrats are guilty of incompetence, stupidity and reckless squandering
Britain will this year spend more than £50billion on its military, making us the sixth-largest defence spender on the planet and the biggest in Europe.