UK Military Experts Call for Rethink on Defence Cuts

In the light of recent unrest in North Africa, military leaders and experts have urged Cameron to reconsider defence cuts. They highlighted how HMS Cumberland evacuated 207 people, including 69 British nationals, from Libya. The frigate is due to be decommissioned.
UK Military Experts Call for Rethink on Defence Cuts
British Navel HMS Cumberland is docked in the main port of Valletta in Malta early on February 26, 2011, with evacuees from Libya as governments scrambled to pull thousands of foreign nationals away from turmoil. Ben Borg Cardona/AFT/Getty
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British Navel HMS Cumberland is docked in the main port of Valletta in Malta early on February 26, 2011, with evacuees from Libya as governments scrambled to pull thousands of foreign nationals away from turmoil. (Ben Borg Cardona/AFT/Getty)
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