Spending even more on defence won’t buy us peace | Letters

Readers respond to the call by Keir Starmer and military chiefs for faster and larger investment in rearmamentWe are told to spend even more, and more quickly, on the armed forces, whose current budget for this year is expected to amount to more than £60bn (). The Ministry of Defence must surely first show it can put its house in order.The government is considering whether to scrap Ajax, the army’s planned new armoured vehicle, even though more than £6bn of taxpayers’ money has already been spent on the project. Ajax is eight years late, its defects so serious that have made soldiers training on it sick, with some suffering hearing loss.