Sitrep: Is the defence spending increase as big as it seems and where will the money go?

Malcolm Chalmers, deputy director general at the defence and security think tank Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), also told Sitrep some of the money should go on making military wages competitive. However, he did say this would come at the cost of increasing troop numbers. "I don't think it will allow the number of Armed Forces personnel to grow, not least because there's quite a lot of demand to spend more on better terms and conditions and a lot of demand to spend more on Armed Forces pay," he said.