Security forces too vulnerable: Match resources with obligations

Franklin D Roosevelt and Roy Keane may not have an immediate affinity but each is famous for a phrase all too applicable to how our defence and police forces have, for whatever reason, been undermined by being unable to match obligation with resources.

Security forces too vulnerable: Match resources with obligations

Franklin D Roosevelt and Roy Keane may not have an immediate affinity but each is famous for a phrase all too applicable to how our defence and police forces have, for whatever reason, been undermined by being unable to match obligation with resources.

Roosevelt warned that the “only thing we have to fear is fear itself” while Keane often warns, “fail to prepare, prepare to fail”.

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