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2004-12-12 Britain

British army is "dangerously small", says former top general

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Posted by Steve White 2004-12-12 12:13:21 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Yeah, and they will do their verbal dumps on the US, but will cry and ask for help when they can't get the job done themselves. Hell, just look at Kosovo. They cannot even clean up the mess in their own backyard.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-12-12 12:30:54 AM|| 2004-12-12 12:30:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Good thing the UK isn't as efficient in streamlining its forces as some of its Euro-peers - or they'd have no army at all.

Posted by .com 2004-12-12 1:12:59 AM|| 2004-12-12 1:12:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 They just wanna all fit in the new NATO building in Brussels...

Posted by Seafarious 2004-12-12 1:25:49 AM|| 2004-12-12 1:25:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 A contrarian might say, just when an army is at is lowest ebb, that's when a really big war comes along.

Posted by HV 2004-12-12 5:56:13 AM|| 2004-12-12 5:56:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Hell, just look at Kosovo. They cannot even clean up the mess in their own backyard.

Or don't want to. After all, that would require believing in something ..... not to mention Work and Risk. (apologies to those who are offended by the rough language in that last phrase, I realize that W**k and R**k are strong words, but sometimes profanity is called for ....)

Posted by too true 2004-12-12 6:44:42 AM|| 2004-12-12 6:44:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 just when an army is at is lowest ebb, that's when a really big war comes along.

Yeah, strange how it seems to work out that way.

Posted by too true 2004-12-12 6:45:32 AM|| 2004-12-12 6:45:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 I think Murphy has something to do with it.

Posted by Ptah 2004-12-12 2:19:33 PM|| [http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2004-12-12 2:19:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 It's Murphy all right. In the end you have to go to war with a grounded dredge and an attitude.

Posted by Shipman 2004-12-12 2:45:36 PM|| 2004-12-12 2:45:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 All this to 'save' 250 million a year. Do you know how much the IT systems are going to cost for our 'much lauded, envy of the (third) world' 'health' service?

Guess.

30 billion pounds.

30,000,000,000 pounds. It's a lot of money. It's a (expletive deleted - I've not been on the wine this evening) waste of money too. The *waste* in the NHS (spit) is unreal.

Here's another one - another much-lauded initiative by the Labour (ie Socialist) government is LearnDirect - it's just about to be closed down and has cost 1 billion pounds over the few years it's been going.

I know a lot of people here think Blair is a good guy 'cos he helped out. That's as maybe (can you *imagine* what help you'd have got if Maggie were still around? - friggin hell, she'd have sent launch codes to the boomers!), but he is still a Socialist that used to be in CND and is happily selling our country out to Brussels.

250 million - it's peanuts, about a tenth the cost of our 'asylum' system.

Bah!

Posted by Tony (UK) 2004-12-12 6:08:54 PM|| 2004-12-12 6:08:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 At this time of the year, Tony, one must use the full phrase, just for tradition's sake. "Bah, humbug!" with a full Scrooge emphasis, please. Otherwise, fabulous rant: not only did you convey your frustration, but you gave us facts and figures as well. All that's left for us to say is, "Heah, heah," as of course we now do.

Posted by trailing wife 2004-12-12 7:43:18 PM|| 2004-12-12 7:43:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Tony (UK) - We feel your pain, bro, heh. Nice rant!

tw - Right on!

Posted by .com 2004-12-12 8:45:32 PM|| 2004-12-12 8:45:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 We (US Army and Marines) should offer all these soldiers positions, to include citizenship. I think many highly-qualfied Brits soldiers would jump at the opportunity and we would surely benefit.

Posted by Brett_the_Quarkian 2004-12-12 9:23:55 PM|| 2004-12-12 9:23:55 PM|| Front Page Top

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