phil hunt wrote:
On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 22:52:39 -0000, James Hart
wrote:

As we (the Brits) don't seem to go to war with anyone now on our own
then it would appear to be a good cost saving idea at a first
glance, if we can't do the job then someone else in the alliance
will take up the slack in that role. If at a later date it turns out
to be a mistake then with the rest of the Eurofighter client nations
taking up the gun then posibly there would be a route for us
reinstating it.

Following that logic we could scrap the entire armed forces!

That would be the logical progression of the cost saving plans.
It would make us an incredibly weak country though, virtually anyone could
sail in and cause us some major damage, or try to nibble away at our
outlying territories like the Falklands. Wasn't there a big round of cost
cutting implemented just before the Argies invaded? I recall seeing a docu
that seemed to imply if the full cutbacks had been implemented we'd never of
had the capability to go to war that far away.

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James...
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