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Originally posted by Snoopdopey
The British armed forces are fine.
We have well trained professional troops and good equipment.
We don't need a huge military force as we don't have a large empire to look after anymore.
At the end of the day, in peacetime, you only need enough troops to defend your borders and I believe we more than have that ability.
If anyone was to invade the UK (not likely) then the people would take up arms and be trained by the forces or ex-forces.
The size of the British military is perfectly ok for the size of country we are.
Originally posted by Snoopdopey
At the end of the day, in peacetime, you only need enough troops to defend your borders and I believe we more than have that ability.
If anyone was to invade the UK (not likely) then the people would take up arms and be trained by the forces or ex-forces.
The size of the British military is perfectly ok for the size of country we are.
Originally posted by Snoopdopey
The British armed forces are fine.
We have well trained professional troops and good equipment.
We don't need a huge military force as we don't have a large empire to look after anymore.
At the end of the day, in peacetime, you only need enough troops to defend your borders and I believe we more than have that ability.
If anyone was to invade the UK (not likely) then the people would take up arms and be trained by the forces or ex-forces.
The size of the British military is perfectly ok for the size of country we are.
Originally posted by WestPoint23
Wow DW you are a master at being inconspicuous when making your points, tell me, what’s your secret?!
Originally posted by fritz
Whilst I am no naval expert [apart from contemplating my own], it appears to me at least, we do not yet have the quantity of warships to protect our coastline or range far from the shore - North Sea or Atlantic Ocean.
From April next year, there will be fewer units to take part in the UK's vision of the New World Order. Simple.
Originally posted by WestPoint23
Wow DW you are a master at being inconspicuous when making your points, tell me, what’s your secret?!
Originally posted by devilwasp
What world order, seems we'll become the 52nd state...
Originally posted by buckaroo
Whos the 51 st state ?
Originally posted by devilwasp
Originally posted by buckaroo
Whos the 51 st state ?
Does canada not count lol?
Originally posted by Snoopdopey
The British armed forces are fine.
Cough 20 rounds per man cough.
We don't need a huge military force as we don't have a large empire to look after anymore.
Cough we're understrength for defending britain COUGH
At the end of the day, in peacetime, you only need enough troops to defend your borders and I believe we more than have that ability.
Cough how we going to defend gib and falklands with less than 50 ship fleet cough
If anyone was to invade the UK (not likely) then the people would take up arms and be trained by the forces or ex-forces.
Conscription: near revolution.
Wouldnt make a diffrence.
The size of the British military is perfectly ok for the size of country we are.
So you think we should be sending our reserves to iraq because we are so low on troops?
Originally posted by Snoopdopey
We have well trained professional troops and good equipment.
Reply: I'm sure it's not that low and if it is really a necessity to defend our country we can manufacture it ourselfs or buy some if we needed ammo really quickly ie under 24 hours.
All they gave my son back and his five colleagues was 50 rounds of ammunition. They then deployed them 23 kilometers away, where the radio range they had at the time was only 15 kilometers, to a notoriously hostile police station where they came under attack by a mob of 500 armed Iraqis.
Reply: We've got about 400,000 forces personnel including reserves. That's quite a bit.
Reply: Planes?
Reply: Not conscription when you volunteer?
also in reply to Paddyinf, i'm not and never have been in the forces, but I don't imagine it takes 6 months to teach someone how to shoot a gun.
I imagine there would be a lot of inner city small arms fighting, so the fitness requirements of the british army wouldn't be required in my opinion.
The people of Britain would just help as much as they could to aid the forces.
Reply: I think we shouldn't even be in Iraq in the first place. That's the result of bad government going against the majority of the people.
Plus I think if you join the reserves you sign up to the possibily that you may be sent to war? I appreciate it's not ideal but if they are needed then there's not much we can do.
I just said if your going to reply devilwasp, would you please mind not to be so sarky next time. Thanks.
Originally posted by Snoopdopey
And Labour also got rid of the Scottish regiments... Huge mistake for future recruitment.
The sooner we vote them out the better.
Originally posted by st3ve_o
devilwasp, your info man! - WHERE DO YOU GET IT FROM??
the mount pleasant base in the falklands isn't there to win THE WHOLE WAR if a falklands scenario happens again, its there to hold the argentines up until a further deployment is made by the british.
when just 'one' type45 destoryer = more firepower than all the fleet of the type42's PUT TOGETHER (i have links to back me up)!!
me personally even though the type42 is a good warship, id rather have 8 type45's rather than 11 type42s (wouldn't you honestly)?
i also like the way you make out ONLY THESE will be defending out coast line
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we have other ships dude!!!
[edit on 3-5-2006 by st3ve_o]