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Brown 'did not have great heart for defence'

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Gordon Brown is likely to face questions about cuts in defence spending when he gives evidence to the Iraq inquiry. BBC business editor Robert Peston takes a look at the Prime Minister's attitude to the military. And General Tim Cross and professor Michael Clarke of RUSI, the Royal United Services Institute, debate whether a lack of funding cost lives.

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