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Allies keep close watch on British plans to reshape armed forces

Russian aggression and Chinese threat pose dilemma for cash-strapped, midsized military power seeking to retain global role
The British army’s Challenger tanks

Out of exasperation rather than expediency, Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, the head of Britain’s armed forces, keeps in his office a copy of JSP 752, the UK military’s expenses manual that runs to 747 pages, about twice as long as Hong Kong’s tax code.

“He waves it at anyone who goes in . . . as an example of where we have got to . . . It’s nuts,” James Heappey, the armed forces minister, said. “We were texting each other kind of WTF over the weekend,” he told the Wavell Room podcast, citing the manual as an example of “profligate process” that needs to be expunged from Britain’s armed forces.

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