The Telegraph claims to have seen leaked budget proposals that would entail defence cuts that would end Britain as a major military power.This is intolerable. Defence is the primary role of government, not a luxury. I accept that this is the current government having to deal with a crisis not of their own making, but if these cuts are true and they go through without being preceded by the wholesale abolition of entire departments, the halting of all foreign aid, and a firm commitment to dismantle the welfare state, then I will still regard the coalition as being criminally negligent and of questionable legitimacy.
Update: £43 million thrown away on useless electric cars while the Army faces a cut of 40,000 men? Just how much crack is the government smoking? I know they must be on crack. I just want to know how much.
Update: Ah, well. If we can't defend Britain, there's always the alternative.
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Well, if we dumped Trident then we could use the money we were going to spend on that to pay for the conventional military (I dare say £40mil could buy a lot of boots). But we don't tell anyone.
It's a win-win situation; if a nuclear war never occurs, (as long as we're careful) people will never find out. And if a nuclear war does occur, I dare say that nobody on our side will care that much, as they'll have been immolated by nuclear fire already.
Clever. I had the same idea about stealth aircraft.
You forget that the United States has committed to "guarentee" the security of Western Europe. If our government ever comes to its senses and realizes putting military bases everywhere pisses off the Muslims and the Russians while making the forces more vulnerable to terrorist attacks, I'm sure your government will come to its senses.
In any event, since terrorism seems to be the largest threat to both the UK and the US, conventional military force is not the best strategy.
Unless each front-line soldier has the resources, intelligence and strength of Batman, but in that case the War on Terror would have only lasted three weeks.
Yeah, an army of Batmans would be sweet.
It. Just. Might. Work!
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