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years of neglect - what did you actually mean by that?- actually mean by that? so, i went into the mod _ actually mean by that? so, i went into the mod in _ actually mean by that? so, i went into the mod in 1990 _ actually mean by that? so, i went into the mod in 1990 when the i actually mean by that? so, i went - into the mod in 1990 when the berlin wall had just come down. i took part in an exercise called 0ptions wall had just come down. i took part in an exercise called options for change gall which basically slashed british defence expenditure and assets because there was no longer a russian threat on the mainland, so we took a peace dividend. the logic now, given we've got a rampaging russia on the shore which is just threatening, but actually conducting warfare — the logic should be that we should reinvest that peace dividend back into defence. no clearly we won't do that, but ease and as julian clearly we won't do that, but ease and asjulian lewis said in the house of commons this afternoon, and the times of the falklands war, we had twice the number of frigates and twice the number of government expenditure. the government keeps hiding behind his 2% nato target of expenditure on defense— in the falklands, we had 4.5%, the estimate of what was required. given we face the same threats now as we did in