Britain will soon have a 'third world' military, former First Sea Lord warns

Britain will end up with a “third world military” unless ministers spend more, a former head of the Royal Navy has warned.Admiral Sir George Zambellas, who retired as First Sea Lord last year, told The Sunday Times that the Navy was “hollowed out” in terms of resources, and he questioned how much more the “post-Brexit Navy” could be stretched in global waters.Mr Zambellas, who won a Distinguished Service Cross in 2001 for his command of a warship during Britai