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| Gen Sir Peter Wall: Britain may need its Army 'sooner than some would have us think' |
| 2014-06-25 |
| h/t Gates of Vienna Britain may have to undertake military operations sooner than people think because of the rapidly changing security situation around the world, the head of the Army said. Gen Sir Peter Wall said Britain now faced a growing range of threats, from attack by ballistic missiles, to terrorism and cyber warfare. The Chief of the General Staff also repeated warnings that any further defence cuts after the 2015 election would endanger the Army's new slimmed down structure. Jack of Norfolk, be not too bold, For Dickon, thy master, is bought and sold |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #7 Pray tell, with what Royal Navy andor Royal Air Force will the Brits [pst-2014 = Scotland?]be using to deliver their Army around the world??? just sayin'. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-06-25 19:39 |
| #6 How many living in Britain have joined the Jihad All-Stars? Jihad Cool vs. Hipster Irony? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-06-25 12:52 |
| #5 The armies of the rest of NATO have shrunk astonishingly fast in the last fifteen years, as quickly as the British armed forces have shrunk, they haven't kept pace with Germany or the others. The days of a massed conscript Bundeswehr are gone. Yes, they're more professional, but they're barely there, now. The new eastern members of NATO have been following the German example for the most part - the Polish Army is now unnervingly small. The Russians have always operated on the maxim "quantity has a quality all its own"... |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2014-06-25 09:23 |
| #4 Only need a ceremonial troop to do a proper surrender. I'm sure the Guard at Buckingham palace will serve well in that capacity. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-06-25 08:18 |
| #3 Considering that the group running Whitehall only sees the military as fishery protection and disaster relief. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-06-25 07:20 |
| #2 Sir Peter's urging are fed by the knowledge that the Yanks may not be coming this time. Perhaps we should leave it at that. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-06-25 06:45 |
| #1 1930,s Churchill redux? |
| Posted by: borgboy 2014-06-25 06:29 |