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2011-09-11 Britain

Morale in British armed forces at new low

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Posted by lotp 2011-09-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Conducting a written survey to gauge morale in the ranks is something akin to exiting the door of an airplane without a parachute. You've waited a bit too long remedy the problem.

Posted by Besoeker 2011-09-11 02:16|| 2011-09-11 02:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Oh, I suspect the leadership within the Forces knew the state of morale. But this makes it public, for the public to see and hold MOD and Parliament responsible for their choice to dismantle what is left of Britain's military capability.

Posted by lotp 2011-09-11 07:40|| 2011-09-11 07:40|| Front Page Top

#3 In many eyes that's a feature, not a bug.

Posted by Glenmore 2011-09-11 08:26|| 2011-09-11 08:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Britain has demilitarized so much that it is becoming reliant on companies like Xe to defend itself. Which is not terribly bad if you plan for it, but if you wait until the last minute to try and contract with somebody to forfeit their lives to save your pasty ass, there will be few takers.

Being conquered will be their final reward for listening too much to the chorus of guilt for their having been an empire. The purpose of conscience is to let you know you have been a brute, not to run your life into the ground as punishment because you had once been brutish.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-09-11 09:18|| 2011-09-11 09:18|| Front Page Top

#5 Britain has to decide whether it is a regional power or a world power. It has the military of the former and the political beliefs and aspirations of the latter.

But you can't be a world leader if your military is sized to be a regional power only.

Britain's military today would be hard-pressed to defend the homeland from an invader.

Posted by Steve White 2011-09-11 10:19|| 2011-09-11 10:19|| Front Page Top

#6 ..because a Euro military will be as effective as the Euro banking/economic system.

Heaven is where the police are British, the cooks are French, the mechanics are German, the lovers are Italian and it is all organised by the Swiss. Hell is where the police are German, the cooks are English, the mechanics are French, the lovers are Swiss, and it is all organised by the Italians

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-09-11 10:44|| 2011-09-11 10:44|| Front Page Top

#7 "Britain's military today would be hard-pressed to defend the homeland from an invader."

I'm afraid it's too late for even that, Steve. Their immigration department has been assisting and welcoming the invader into their country. For years.

Posted by Barbara 2011-09-11 12:25|| 2011-09-11 12:25|| Front Page Top

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