Posted on 09/17/2016 11:36:27 AM PDT by NRx
The UK’s armed forces would not be able to protect the country from a full-scale attack by Russia or another major military power, the recently retired commander of joint forces command has said.
Gen Sir Richard Barrons, who stepped down in April, delivered a scathing assessment of the UK military in a 10-page private memorandum to the defence secretary, Sir Michael Fallon.
It comes despite the government’s decision to increase defence spending by nearly £5bn by 2020/21 and to meet Nato’s target of 2% of GDP for the rest of the decade.
In his memo, Barrons said: “Capability that is foundational to all major armed forces has been withered by design.
“There is a sense that modern conflict is ordained to be only as small and as short term as we want to afford, and that is absurd.
“The failure to come to terms with this will not matter at all if we are lucky in the way the world happens to turn out, but it could matter a very great deal if even a few of the risks now at large conspire against the UK.”
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Britain has joined most of the rest of Western Europe in becoming a military protectorate of the United States.
This comes under the “Captain Obvious” category.
The UK has no military. It has been cut beyond the bone
Russia isn’t going to attack the USA. The problem is the bearded savages who slice necks.
When was the last time they could?
Elementary arithmetic, obvious to any attentive 4th grader.
That’s not very cricket.
The UK has a formidable, independent nuclear force based on the Trident missile system. Any potential aggressor, such as Russia, would be foolish to attack the UK and risk retaliation by this force.
God help us (UK and US) if the Chinese decide to go on the offensive..
They would have to get through France first - Oh, wait, what am I saying.
Nut thet could hold them up until we (the US) got there,... (a repeat of WWII).
Canada, here they come.
If they are hoping that the EU army can save the UK it is highly unlikely they would try since Brexit. That kind of pissed them off.
That actually occurred in 1940 when we “Lend Leased” them a flotilla of destroyers and the U.S. Navy joined in the secret war with Germany’s U-Boats. They won’t be happy admitting it but Britain’s been living under our wing to some extent ever since. There ought to be a drinking game for every time the word SPAM is mentioned during films about wartime Britain. And to be fair, America prospered while the Royal Navy patrolled all seas and allowed an age of unparalleled peaceful trade.
“Russia isn’t going to attack the USA.”
They did in Red Dawn. s/
WOLVERINES!
Yeah, and half a dozen teenagers with rifles kept them occupied for months...lol
Avenge ME!!
I was waiting in the past 8 years when obamaturd was going to round us Freepers in chain fences with a loudspeaker going “obama is your leader..you are a stupid American..guns are evil”
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