When David Cameron, the Conservative prime minister, set up the government's cost-cutting Strategic Defence and Security Review (sdsr), he doubtless expected noisy lobbying from the top brass: to be told, for example, that severe cuts to the defence budget could "seriously damage morale" in the armed forces, carry "grave political consequences" and "limit severely the [military] options available". He may not, however, have reckoned on those sentiments being publicly attributed to the defence secretary, Liam Fox, as they were this week when a letter to him from Dr Fox was leaked to the Daily Telegraph.
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