Yep, the Iron Lady is no longer in charge … the Brits could end up with egg on their faces over this one. Not to mention that recent history has shown that the British military can come across as less than stellar in their bravery and combat ability.
“””Not to mention that recent history has shown that the British military can come across as less than stellar in their bravery and combat ability.”””
Bravery? Ah you mean like the U.S military when it’s personnel refused to carry out convoy duty in Iraq in case they got hurt?
As for ‘combat ability’, I believe it’s the USAF that is going around blowing up it’s allies, not the British.
How stellar is your bravery and combat ability?
Regards
That is a highly offensive, highly innaccurate statement. The UK military has been the only one outside of the US to actually place itself into heavy combat and it has performed superbly. The British military doesn’t award medals for nothing. Have a look at the dozens of articles about British gallantry on this website. Some awards have been made to UK troops for actions in saving US personnel. The US military has also been superb, but your statement disrespecting the British neglects the US’s own embarrassments:
1) Military personnel captured at sea by Iran without a fight in 2003.
2) British Royal Marines replacing a certain US unit in Afghanistan in 2002 (at the request of the US command) as a certain US unit ‘didn’t do mountains’.
3) The refusal of a unit of US personnel in Iraq to go out on convoy duty. A mutiny over driving supplies.
4) The highly publicised, still debated, incident caught on film where a civilian convoy driver alleged that his US military escprt abandoned him and hs colleagues when under attack.
5) The port of Umm Qasr copntained stubborn pockets of resistance in Iraq during the Iraq invasion in 2003. US forces in the port tried for several days to get rid of it. The Royal Marines subdued the town in 24 hours when called (you may remember that they recieved specific praise for this from the US military).
I could go on.
This compares to:
British embarrassments:
1) Royal Navy personnel captured by Iran
Presumably, by your logic the US military has been even more ‘less than stellar in their bravery and combat ability’.
What a load of nonsense. Both the US and British militaries have performed heroically in Iraq and Afghanistan. By the way: so what if Lady Thatcher isn’t in charge of the UK? You could hardly accuse Britain of being shy when it comes to using its military in recent years.
Oh, f**k you.
The British soldier is still as fine and brave as any on the planet. And are still fighting and dying as we speak in Iraq and Afghanistan, you ungrateful halfwit.
‘Less than stellar?’.What utter bollocks.From an armchair general no doubt.
I suppose Vietnam and Mogadishu make YOU a military laughing stock by your logic?....