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Wasn't it enough to reduce funding to the Armed Forces so that we are virtually defenceless? The government seems now determined to undermine morale in the defence forces. We had the case last year when SAS men were subject to an outrageous prosecution for doing no more than their duty in Afghanistan. Now there's talk of a Royal commission into past abuse in the Armed Forces. So every day the media will be filled with detailed allegations before these are tested properly in a court of law. We just learned that a firm of lawyers has produced a report for the government which says there are allegations of sexual and other abuse in the defence forces going back many years. Unsurprisingly, they say that compensation should be paid. The lawyers had no power to compel witnesses neither to appear before them nor to produce documents. The allegations made have not been tested in court where the accused would have the important and crucial right of cross-examination. There was no jury to decide whether the c