Many people said at the time of the SDSR that it was a rushed exercise.
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The comments come ahead of the publication of the Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR), due in October.
Making his maiden speech Labour former Defence Secretary Lord Hutton told peers that concerns about the SDSR were "fully justified".
The SDSR made no attempt to say, other than in the vaguest terms, what the army might be for after Afghanistan.
But he said the SDSR - which cut billions of pounds from the Ministry of Defence budget - would not be revisited.
About 17, 000 armed forces jobs are scheduled to go under the terms of the Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR), announced in 2010.
Last year's strategic defence and security review (SDSR) said Army numbers were to be reduced by 7, 000, and the Royal Navy and RAF by 5, 000 each.
The government's 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) introduced an 8% cut in defence funding and reductions of 30, 000 personnel across the armed forces.
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As a result of the Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) in December 2010, Dr Liam Fox, Conservative defence secretary, announced the scrapping of its four Type 22 frigates.
The debate follows fears that the UK government's strategic defence and security review (SDSR) could spell the closure of RAF Leuchars, allowing RAF Lossiemouth in Moray to stay open.
His comments came against the background of the government's 2010 strategic defence and security review (SDSR) which introduced an 8% cut in defence funding and reductions of 30, 000 personnel.
Lord Astor of Hever, speaking for the government, said the SDSR was "very difficult", reflecting the complexity of defence, variety of emerging threats, changing nature of conflicts and the UK's financial situation.
Dr Fox argued that given the scale of the MoD's budgetary crisis there were no easy options and that the SDSR was a work in progress with many details still to be fleshed out.
Under the Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR), announced in 2010, the navy and air force have to cut 5, 000 jobs each, the Army 7, 000 and about 25, 000 civilian staff working at the MoD face redundancy.
However, the committee said it was "not convinced that, given the current financial climate and the drawdown of capabilities arising from the SDSR, UK armed forces will be able do what is asked of them after 2015".
The balance between revising national defence and security strategy ( or lack thereof) and budget constraints will be picked over for a long time once the SDSR is published, which may be at the end of October.
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"We have been in an extremely expensive cul-de-sac for the last 18 months as a result of a shambles of an SDSR and I can only congratulate you for bringing some sanity to it, " he told Mr Hammond in the Commons.
The result of the SDSR is likely to be a much smaller force, with the RAF expected to bear the brunt of cuts - perhaps retiring its Tornado fast jets earlier than planned, scrapping the Nimrod MRA4 and losing up to 7, 000 personnel.
Downing Street would like defence chiefs and the MoD to get on with the business of implementing the strategic defence and security review (SDSR)- and the defence cuts within it - without a running commentary on the front pages about low morale or fears for the future.
While many professional soldiers feel that an Army with the five brigades, the force established under the Coalition government's Strategic Defence and Security Review (the SDSR), has sunk below a critical level, I would argue that they have probably got off the lightest of the three services.
Downing Street, it seems, wanted some positive headlines out of the SDSR, which was largely an exercise in cutbacks, so it decided to back the idea of Britain getting a "grown up" aircraft carrier, ie one launching conventional aircraft with catapults rather than a very large replacement "Harrier Carrier".
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However, the campaign in Libya has re-ignited the debate that raged during the SDSR as to how the government could deal with the overall budget deficit and a black hole in the defence budget over the next decade without harming current operations and the armed forces' ability to deal with future contingencies.
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