UK Defence
We have become smaller and more fragile in terms of our military capabilities. What we don’t have is a particularly good deterrent capability,” says Matthew Savill, at the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi), a defence think tank....“Our challenge is if somebody is looking to coerce us or to force us to stay out, normally what would happen is you match your conventional forces against theirs and you look quite threatening,” Savill says. “We just don’t at the moment. That’s our problem. It’s not that we can’t defend ourselves, it’s that we look vulnerable and we would take more pain than we would like,” he adds.
