A Royal Navy warship will be deployed off the coast of Gibraltar for the first time under Britain’s defence review – but an Army Colonel has warned it is a ‘huge mistake’ to cut 10,000 troops amid warnings that China’s forces are growing at a ‘frightening rate’.
The Government is due to outline to Parliament its Command Paper, titled Defence in Competitive Age, which will see military investment in cyber and space fronts, but cuts to personnel and equipment, including tanks and aircraft.
According to The Telegraph, the HMS Trent, a Royal Navy patrol vessel capable of carrying Merlin…
