The 2021 review introduced the first concrete ideas in this sequence for expanding parts of the armed forces after earlier reviews had concentrated on reductions. Many of the promised outcomes sat roughly ten years ahead. That schedule left delivery to later governments whose decisions the review could not control. The growth language therefore depended on successors preserving the same direction.
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The 2021 growth promises sat a decade away
The 2021 review promised force growth on a schedule that left much of its funding and delivery to later governments.