{"id":2486118,"date":"2026-07-03T06:29:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T06:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2486118"},"modified":"2026-07-03T06:29:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T06:29:46","slug":"im-really-frustrated-former-royal-navy-commander-on-starmers-updated-defence-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/im-really-frustrated-former-royal-navy-commander-on-starmers-updated-defence-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m really frustrated\u2019: Former Royal Navy Commander On Starmer\u2019s Updated Defence Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/THhPcJAddsk?autoplay=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\u201cThis is the first time that we will see this level of investment where we\u2019re not seeing a replacement of what we call traditional surface platforms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maritime strategist and former Royal Navy commander Simon Kelly says that the lack of investment in the defence investment plan is \u201cgoing to affect our ability to fight today\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Simon Kelly was speaking to  Rosie Wright and Calum Macdonald on Times Radio Breakfast. Listen live every day, from 6-10am.<\/p>\n<p>Read the best of our journalism: https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/<br \/>\nListen live to Times Radio: https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/radio\/live<br \/>\nSubscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=timesonlinevideo<br \/>\nFind us on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/timesandsundaytimes\/<br \/>\nFind us on X: https:\/\/x.com\/thetimes<br \/>\nFind us on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thetimes\/<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=THhPcJAddsk\">Video Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis is the first time that we will see this level of investment where we\u2019re not seeing a replacement of what we call traditional surface platforms.\u201d Maritime strategist and former Royal Navy commander Simon Kelly says that the lack of investment in the defence investment plan is \u201cgoing to affect our ability to fight today\u201d. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2486119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2486118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783060184_maxresdefault.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2486118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2486120,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486118\/revisions\/2486120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2486119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2486118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2486118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2486118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}