LONDON, U.K. – A study said, Britain's shrinking military will "never again be among the global superpowers" but will have enough capability to assist in operations such as Libya and Afghanistan in the future.However, the Ministry of Defense's finances will be capsized and its resources further diminished unless there is a substantial increase in defense spending to cover the "looming" costs of the replacement for the Trident nuclear deterrent.
- The warning comes from the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) think-tank in a tough report which questions whether Britain's defence crisis is really over.
Last year's Strategic Defence and Security Review led to sweeping redundancies across all three services. In a brutally frank assessment of the British military, the report states: "The UK will never again be a member of the select club of global superpowers. Indeed, it has not been one for decadesBut currently planned levels of defense spending should be enough for it to maintain its position as one of the world's five second-rank military powers with only the United States in the first rank.
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