The British Royal Navy is in the most degenerated state with its fighting capability being "eroded" and the fleet's ability to influence events at the strategic level" under threat," the Sunday Telegraph reported.
The fleet is "thinly stretched," "increasingly taut" and facing" significant risks" and the navy can no longer fight a major war because of years of under-funding and cutbacks, the daily quoted the top-level Ministry of Defence document as saying.
"The Royal Navy would be challenged to mount a medium-scale operation in accordance with current policy against a technologically capable adversary. A medium-scale operation" is similar to the naval involvement in the Iraq War," the daily said, quoting the leaked report ordered by Defence Secretary Des Browne states.
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