A survey has shown that the British public sees the threat of war as a disruptive rather than an existential challenge. Unless the government can show that it is using taxpayers’ money wisely, they will not back increased investment in our military, writes Anand Menon H owever you spin it, it’s not a good look that a former Labour minister – also a former Nato secretary general and co-author of the government’s Strategic Defence Review – is accusing the government of “ corrosive complacency ”.