General Sir Richard Barrons warned the Armed Forces are ‘so small in terms of equipment, so undertrained, so badly supported in terms of stocks and engineering’. The RAF and Navy are ‘wafer thin’, while the UK’s land forces are in an even worse state, he told the i newspaper. ‘The Army – and it knows this perfectly well – is absolutely not ready to take its place in Nato in a confrontation with Russia,’

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/other/ex-army-chief-joins-calls-to-prepare-for-uk-conscription/ss-BB1iUl0s?

 

Must be a “reverse psychology” approach to recruiting!