The Times reports today that the British Army has 65 generals. Well if you add in the 190 Brigadiers (one star generals in the USA), that comes up to 255 of them in an army of around 100,000 troops. That's one for every 392 troops. Then we get 31 admirals for around 73 ships (ignoring the Mickey Mouse motor boats) and 36 various air marshals for 1,109 aircraft and 44,300 people. To say this lot was top heavy would be an understatement although the RAF looks leaner than the others.
Many years ago, an aunt of my wife, working in the Admiralty, said that back in WWI we had more ships at sea than people working in the Admiralty but even then (70's I think) the situation had reversed.
I know that not all these people are leading combat forces. Indeed I suspect few of them are. Most likely they are on NATO committees and US liaison comittees or the like. The only certain thing is that they earn lots of money. Well, it's tighten your belt time. So let's have a massive cull and spend the money on decent weapons.
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