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Don't the army still pay the Public School fees for the children of certain officers? I'd suggest they're not underfunded at all.
And frankly if grown men want to play soldier, they can do it with their own money, not mine.
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No idea, but it's not the officer class that's short on the money, it's the regular infantry.
What I read - and I can't retrospectively find the article - is that the military budget is too geared towards building aircraft carriers and the like. The high ranking officer who said this speculated that the idea of fighting a war with troops on the ground isn't as redundant as politicians like to think; that the building of new warships, subs and aircraft was merely a 'show of force' and wasn't strategically justifiable.
The_Kindness_of_Trees
Well, the regular army is under funded - too much emphasis on building aircraft and boats - and I don't see the harm in having cadet groups attached to schools. It's better than going around to schools in deprived areas offering money to kids to join the army, which is what they do actually do in the US.