Nearly 2,000 military roles to go in cuts
NEARLY 2,000 military jobs are set to go as the result of defence cuts, it has emerged.
More than 1,500 RAF jobs could go
It's time for the Government to come clean.
Plans have been drawn up to axe positions in both the Royal Navy and the RAF over the next five years.
The Sun on Sunday reports that the RAF will lose 1,506 roles, while 400 Royal Navy jobs are set to go.
Shadow armed forces minister Kevan Jones said the news meant the Government had already broken its pledge to not cut defence further.
He said: "Even before it starts its' defence review, the Government has decided that even more RAF and Navy personnel will be sacked.
"It's time for the Government to come clean."
A MoD spokesman said: "With Europe's biggest defence budget we continue to meet our commitments."
500 Royal Navy jobs could be cut
The news comes as a senior military boss said Britain had been rendered 'feeble' as it failed to take action on ongoing crises in the Middle East and Eastern Europe.
Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, Admiral Sir Nigel Essenhigh, claimed the UK's lack of action was like the appeasement of Nazi Germany.
He said that the lack of action in the 1930s was borne out of World War One, and because there was no appetite for further military intervention ' there is cover for our recent, feeble responses to events in the Middle East such as in Libya, Syria and once again in Iraq, as well as in the face of the exponential threat posed by Islamic State'.
He said: "We therefore call on the Government to acknowledge this parlous state of affairs and exhort it to ensure that the Defence and Security Review does not degenerate into yet another cuts exercise.
"It must demonstrate to potential enemies that Britain continues to be a country that will not be coerced into submission through military weakness when diplomacy fails in the future, as it did in the Thirties."