Get a grip will you ! These are the first batch of the 17,000 redundancies to the Military announced last year in October as part of the SDSR. It's not as if they've suddenly decided to add an extra 2,600 onto the numbers already stated.
You should try getting yourself a position in Bollictics, with your knack of sensationalising without substance you'd fit right in there ! Jeez ! Anything to make your beloved labour seem whiter than white & the big bad (Tory) coalition the bogeyman, enabling our enemies to come & slaughter us in our sleep !
With an average budget of about 40bn which is to be reduced by 8% bringing it to around 36bn the British military has to make do with less unfortunately. This you'll find is due to your make everyone dependent on us party frittering away (from the articles included) over 100bn on overpriced, late, dysfunctional & non compatible acquisitions, money pished against the wall.
FT.com / UK / Politics & policy - Report attacks military cost overruns
Cost Of Labour’s Botched IT Projects Exposed | eWEEK Europe UK
Whitehall 'experts' cost the taxpayer £2billion in wages | Mail Online
That should be enough to be getting on with for now, so wipe up your crocodile tears & take a big gulp of reality, his Tonyness & Prudence Broon weren't the saviours you try to make them out to be !