[lowbridge]

Britain is guarded... by the French

So anybody up for conquering Britain next weekend? We'll grab a few brewskis, head across the pond and negotiate thir surrender. After that we can have a BBQ.

[Hootowl99]

Your jest may not be so far from reality unfortunately. Another Sun article linked on the same page describes the rated active ship list after the latest cuts and it puts British Navy at the 2nd smallest in Europe, second only to Portugal. Even Greece will have a larger navy than Britain.

The British Navy is to be about 10 percent the size it was about 25 years ago, which in itself was about 10 percent of the size it was in 1939 listed in the post at the top of the threed.

Britain, kiss the Falkland Islands away.