[RightOnline]

"Games of military chicken can lead to real shooting wars. Another war over the Falklands will be messier than the first. The fact that the RN could deploy two light carriers with fixed wing fighter and attack aircraft (a capability it’s lacked since getting rid of the Ark Royal and the Harrier GR.9s) and mount a credible threat against the Argentine mainland by demonstrating the ability to hit Stanley using Vulcans based on Ascension Island (the Black Buck raids) helped keep the war contained to the islands.

Another go-round given the current Brit OOB would probably require the RN to actually start popping off Tomahawks from its SSNs against mainland Argentine targets to deliver the “It was a bad idea, a VERY bad idea, to try this again” message. And the Brits would have to do that knowing full well that they’d have to wait for the next GOP administration before they could replenish their Tomahawk stocks ..."

"RN" "GR 9s" "OOB" "SSN's" "GOP"

Decent points in your post, mind you, but if there's an award given for "Most Use of Abbreviations in a Post", you win......hands down. :)

[tanknetter]

"RN" "GR 9s" "OOB" "SSN's" "GOP"

Decent points in your post, mind you, but if there's an award given for "Most Use of Abbreviations in a Post", you win......hands down. :)

This is FR (Free Republic); it has an educated lurker and participantship. IMHO (In My Humble Opinion), if I want to use acronyms to talk about the Royal Navy, the Harrier Ground-attack and Recce version #9, Order(s) Of Battle, Nuclear-powered Attack Submarines (ok, that's not an exact acronym, but I digress) or the Grand Old Party (that would be the Republicans - which I know can be a dirty word around here) people should be able to go look them up.

I mean, if I wanted to dumb-down my postings by spelling everything out so a 3rd grader would understand, I'd just go over to DU (that would be Democrat Underground) ...



(JOKING!)