Summary: UK Foreign and Defence Secretaries have welcomed France’s Defence White Paper, which sets out its vision for French Armed Forces. The White Paper, released on 29 April, opted to keep France’s air, ground and sea capabilities, while freezing defence budgets over six years and cutting 34,000 military posts between
Whitehall sources have suggested that new cuts in the defence budget could take British defence spending below 2% of Gross Domestic Product, the level regarded by the United States as the minimum standard to be considered a serious military power.
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