For Britain’s armed forces it’s ludicrous to fetishise this 2% spending target

Britain’s defence strategy should be based on the threats the nation faces, not perverse political totemsIt isn’t just military planners who seem happier refighting the last war. Politicians are too. David Cameron chooses to stay tactically quiet about defence because he was humbled by losing the Syria vote in 2013. But Ed Miliband, who won that vote, is just as cautious. Labour remains haunted by its own defence ghosts, many dating back to the unilateralist 1980s.Few would go so far as to c