‘Cost-accounting task’
The Quigley review lacks humanity and has the appearance of a cost-accounting exercise, the president of the Army Association, Mr Jim Brown said. A former Army colonel, Mr Brown said defence was about people and even if a soldier had the best equipment in the world, he would be no good if morale was bad. He likened the review to the “curate’s egg” — parts were excellent, parts rotten. It unfairly criticised the Defence Department for not employing new business systems, he said. The criticism of the size of the Army’s “green fleet,” its off-road vehicles, was an over-simplification. “We are looking at equipping the force for 10 years into the future," Mr Brown said. It was also inaccurate to compare the Defence “white” fleet of civilian-styled vehicles with a commercial operation as, until now, Defence had worked under a “buy in bulk and husband it for as long as one can,” philosophy.—PA.
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