Letters: Navy recruitment failures leave Britain vulnerable at a time of growing danger

SIR – Ignoring the fact – as successive governments have done for 20 years – that the Royal Navy is a third of the size this country needs it to be, one despairs of the predictability of the Ministry of Defence’s response to its shortage of manpower (“Navy has so few sailors ships must be scrapped”, report, January 5).

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