"It is a serious downgrading of British capability in the area, and it sadly fits with a shift to the right in government where Euroscepticism often goes hand in hand with climate scepticism".
A former senior CIA official responsible for operations in Yemen told VICE News that "the most important contribution" to the intelligence for the strike came from "a very important British capability".
Moreover, we need British defence capabilities to win this war.
But the momentum of the Sixties was dissipated and, somewhere along the way, the fashion industry ceased to utilise the best of British design capabilities.
There have been concerns in Washington that any scaling back of British defence capabilities may have implications for the UK's ability to support the US in future deployments.
The government's economic policies have "eaten away at British economic capabilities," are "misguided" and left Britain's economy "malnourished," Mr. Posen wrote in the January edition of Prospect magazine.
"For two-and-a-half years, the coalition government's economic policies have focused on the wrong narrow goal, been self-defeating in pursuit of that goal, and in so doing have eaten away at British economic capabilities and confidence," Mr. Posen wrote.
"The Nissan Sunderland journey is a remarkable story, demonstrating British manufacturing capabilities at their best - excellent training, a committed, skilled workforce and brilliant, determined leadership," said CBI director-general John Cridland.
German intelligence suggested that the RAF was down to just 300 serviceable fighters on 17 August 1940, taking into consideration German pilots' claims and their estimates of British production capabilities.
A Ministry of Defence (MoD) spokesman said the display was intended to showcase British defence capability as well as the British defence industry.
It's partly the fact that the Scorpions' Virgin Killer has been around all that time without the hint of a prosecution, and partly the cackhanded way the Internet Watch Foundation has gone about justifying its censorship, not to mention the side-effect of wiping out British editing capability on Wikipedia, that seems to have created bemusement on the web, rather than anger.
