Letter to the I: Military Letter

I profoundly disagree with David Ridley's letter.  Although it is of course very important that our security services have the resources to protect us from terrorists, it should not be at the expense our ability to stand up to nation-states.  To this end we still need to invest in our Trident nuclear weapons to avoid nuclear blackmail from adversarial nation-states.  In a wider sense it is also important for us to maintain an expeditionary military capacity in the event that we need to military intervene abroad.  We may need to do this in order to come to the aid of NATO allies or fulfill our obligations to the Genocide Convention or the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine.

Regards

Zachary Barker