Sir Richard Barrons: Military 'unable' to protect UK from attack

Britain's Armed Forces are unable to protect the country from a full-scale attack, the former head of the Joint Forces Command has warned. General Sir Richard Barrons, who retired in April, said that civil servants are focused on "skinning" budgets rather than tackling "profoundly difficult" strategic challenges. In a memo to Defence Minister Michael Fallon, Sir Richard added that the Ministry of Defence has worked to "preserve the shop window" but the Armed Forces' capability had been "wit