Cuts to the army budget and a sharp decline in troop numbers have left the UK unable to face up to major crises on the world stage, ministers have been told.
The alarming claim came in a report by the Commons defence committee this week, which evaluated the impact of reductions in spending by the Ministry of Defence over the last decade.
In the paper MPs blasted "arrogant" military chiefs for refusing to learn lessons from the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Taliban's overthrow of Afghanistan last year.
