{"id":34443,"date":"2020-03-03T01:59:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T00:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poetsandsailors.com\/?p=34443"},"modified":"2020-03-03T01:59:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T00:59:13","slug":"british-military-could-be-left-depleted-after-13bn-shortfall-uk-news-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/03\/british-military-could-be-left-depleted-after-13bn-shortfall-uk-news-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"British military could be left depleted after \u00a313bn shortfall | UK news | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2020\/feb\/27\/watchdog-rebukes-mod-over-3bn-military-budget-overspend\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/306396421e34cb7947eaf7a81e4a8bd4edd9ed38\/0_584_1575_944\/master\/1575.jpg?width=300&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=32bdbd9a6ea30921e4a1814029499fb0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s military will have fewer armoured vehicles, aircraft and lose the use of its only naval hospital ship because of a shortfall of up to \u00a313bn in its 10 year equipment budget, the government spending watchdog warned.<!--more--><\/p>\n[&#8230;]The detailed rebuke comes two days after <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2020\/feb\/25\/johnson-unveils-major-review-of-foreign-and-defence-policy\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Boris Johnson announced a strategic review of the government\u2019s defence and foreign policy<\/a>, which came with a hint that spending on the armed forces could increase beyond the current 2.1% of GDP, creating the hope that taxpayers\u2019 money could plug the gap.[&#8230;]\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2020\/feb\/27\/watchdog-rebukes-mod-over-3bn-military-budget-overspend\">British military could be left depleted after \u00a313bn shortfall | UK news | The Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain\u2019s military will have fewer armoured vehicles, aircraft and lose the use of its only naval hospital ship because of a shortfall of up to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,81,2,6],"tags":[37,84,148],"class_list":["post-34443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nowar","category-english","category-poets-sailors-news","category-politics","tag-guerra","tag-military-spending","tag-uk","entry","rows-excerpt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}