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March 22, 2013 at 9:21 pm in reply to: AirForces Monthly April issue – FREE '25 Years of Fighters' Poster #2301199

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Re “difficult choices, sdsr 2015”

I sincerely hope the closing summery box featured in this article is going to be the outcome for the armed forces in 2015?
For all of us as citizens it has become time to make “difficult choices” do we ask for more and more hand outs until nothing is left or do we realise the truth and force our political representatives to concentrate on the areas of true importance – national identity and functions as represented by a viable navy. air force and army and the provision of utilities, health care and infrastructure?
Not hand outs! No more bribery, either internal to this countries inhabitants or external in the form of Dane Geld.
The world is clearly changing from a stable, relatively prosperous place (for us at least) to an unstable,arena of competition and threat and we have disarmed! Why!?

October 11, 2008 at 3:10 pm in reply to: Britain considers JSF pullout #2459626

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good but ?

Good piece in this months mag about the F.A.A. and carriers but there should be more un qualified support from your mag. Trimmings no good, especially in these times.

Are they really going to make even more cuts to our defences ?

Its madness, we are facing a period of global termoil. Didnt F.D.R. Order the Yorktown class of carriers during the great depression plus a great many other things to. Dont this lot admire F.D.R ? SO !

June 7, 2008 at 2:54 pm in reply to: Is It Me ? #2496584

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Why is nationalism a dirty word ?

Are you saying the UK needs to ramp up the military in the name of nationalism?

The questions I asked have been mainly answered (eg regarding cluster munitions) however I feel that theres precious little wrong with either patriotism or nationalism. After all theres hardly any evident anywhere in debate or in politics, media or the “elite”.

Why should we become “little britain” when there is no need to and it will be destructive both to us and to the wider world?

Yours.

ste

February 16, 2008 at 2:56 pm in reply to: Royal Navy FSC two tier thing or whatever it is called now #2093935

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thankyou R.U.S.S.I.

Just a word of thanks to who ever got russis recent statements the T.V. Air time they had. Now all we have to do is hope someone in the world beyond these forums listened and took note. For the programmes mentioned in these postings to become reality people have to be made to understand the consequences of losing our current and future naval power.

Keep up the good work. Down with internal and external Dane Geld, up with money spent on strength.

October 20, 2007 at 10:45 am in reply to: More trouble for the RN #2045783

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write to our newspapers and M.P.s

More gloomy reading in Todays’s Telegraph. Expect either a major row or complete indifference 😡 🙁

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=F4OL1M0SJWK3VQFIQMGSFFOAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2007/09/30/navy130.xml

Dear All.

Please give serious thought to writing to your M.P.s and newspapers to complain about the risks that have been taken with our security and are about to be taken again (or so it seems).

If enough people express disquiet it may have some efect, further numerical cuts to the R.N. will be untenable.

After all we need a navy, we live on an island that now contains sixty million people whom we cannot feed or look after with the resources available on these islands or around our shores.

Yours.

Ste. P.S.What has happened to the previous thread of postings on this subject ?

October 6, 2007 at 11:30 am in reply to: you must be kidding. #2506651

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Beware the Bad Guys.

Yes. We need the things I spoke of because the world is full of people and people cannot be expected to do the right thing even half of the time.

Again Yours.

Ste.

P.S. No one in the cabinet has been in the forces, they probably havent even read a history book yet they are making the decisions that effect our lives.We must debate these things even if we have not served in H.M. Forces.

Ste.

No, we need to invest in alternative energy, this is like saying spend money on anti-lung cancer drugs rather than erradicating the main cause of the disease. The technology could be developed to reduce our dependence on oil, at that point what do we care what happens in the Middle East, Nigeria, Venezvuela etc? If we don’t do it then we’re shafted anyway as oil is a finite resource and won’t be there forever no matter how many soldiers we have. And politicians aren’t idiots, no matter how much I often say so in fits of rage, they’re highly tuned in to what the electorate wants, if there is no real voter interest in defence then the politicians won’t prioritise it. Personally, I find it one of the UK’s redeeming features that we live in a country where the political landscape is dominated by civil issues and the military is relatively low key, and I say that as somebody who is ex-air force.

PS. I did my RAF time under a Tory government and all I saw was the services being shat on from a great height then, so this is certainly not a party political issue.

October 6, 2007 at 10:57 am in reply to: Does anybody actually believe in the forces anymore? #2506658

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never trust a frock

Its good that people read these postings and comment on them but I would urge those who are concerned about the state of our military capability should write or e-mail to their M.P. Saying so in measured respectful terms.

If everyone who bought or read a military type magazine wrote to “the frocks” (quote from admiral Fischer I believe) they might move the forces up the list of priorities.

yours in hope

ste.

In Britain there seems to be constant on the news, in the papers and on the net of the armed forces.

We hear about how the Army is struggling with a manpower crisis, outdated equipment and an increasing sense of dissolution coming from both within and outside on their role post cold war.

The RAF is in quite urgent need of replacements for aging fleet of tanker aircraft for AAR and larger numbers of several of the newer aircraft and varients currently on order.

The Navy, although it is not mentioned as often as it is for the other services, is suffering greatly with a shortage of many types of vessel with the number of Destroyers on order too few.

With troops being killed and injured whilst on operations thousands of miles away in the Middle East and a lack of basic body armour being blamed there are many people saying the British Armed Forces should be better equiped and bought back home. But does anybody both in this country and abroad actually believe the British Armed Forces are actually capable of doing today what only 17 years ago in the first Gulf War they did so well with America?

Or have they lost all faith in them?

September 29, 2007 at 3:56 pm in reply to: you must be kidding. #2508577

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dane geld

I’ve never voted Labour in my life but really don’t see them as being any more anti-armed forces than the Tories, do you really think the state of the forces would be any better under a Tory or Lib-Dem government? And what do you want to cut, or where do you want to raise the extra revenue to double the defence budget? Bearing in mind public finances are deteriorating already. And where are the threats to the UK? The EU? If the purpose of the armed forces is to defend our own country from any realistic threat then we don’t have that much to worry about, the question is whether we want an expeditionary/power projection capability.

Dear All.

There seems to be endless money for the payment of internal and external dane geld. The problem is a political one, what do the elites want, personal power or national (state power) as represented by the armed forces? Also I dont really think that there is no threat, especially if you think forward by 10 or 20 years to when oil really does start to run short.We will need an expeditionary capability then, in spades.

Thanks Again Ste.

September 29, 2007 at 3:41 pm in reply to: you must be kidding. #2508582

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bias seems to be the hardest word

It depends on the opinion (read bias) of the person writing the article ste, to be fair to key publishing they do publish articles from people who fall on both sides of the procurement article. I have seen articles before in their magazines that favour the navies side of the argument.

In reality these articles show up the real problem which is underfunding of all three services. We have such an acute situation now with budgets that all the service’s are briefing against each other in a vain hope to get a larger slice of the money pie!

Dear All.

I agree, although the word bias is a bit harsh. My own bias comes from the leasons of history. I sincearly believe that the most important part of our armed forces is the Royal Navy especially its aviation componant.

To put my money where my mouth is I would like to point out that I would be willing to pay a reasonable amount of extra tax to fund the armed forces.Obviously the debate is army centric at the moment and perhaps rightly so but how does the army get to the combat zone with its full equipment?How will aircover be provided with no ground bases available?How will the R.A.F. get their munitions and fuel into theatre?By sea Ishould imagine and now and ever will it be so.

Thanks Ste
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