Britain is in danger of being left with hollowed out armed forces, with "exquisite" equipment but without the soldiers, sailors and airmen needed to man it, the country's most senior military officer has warned.
Here are some of the key quotations from Sir Nick Houghton's speech to the Royal United Services Institute military think tank this evening:
On manpower
On 'creeping aversion' to deployment
On the defence industry
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