You have to use irregulars to fight irregulars, using irregular methods, habits and if necessary, appearance.

I think that this is the means by which small, ‘brush’ wars of the future will be fought successfully by Western powers.

I believe that we should expand our irregular forces at the expense of our regulars. We also need plenty of Arabic speakers.

It’s a waste of time, effort and money to use a Eurofighter technology against a bicycle technology.

I hear what you’re saying, but how often after equipping irregular forces do the powers that did the equipping, find themselves up against the same forces that they equipped and trained?.

Unemployment benefit is a farce. They should be given vouchers for food and utilities if required, not cash.

I’ve been unemployed for a few months now, but I’m living off my savings. I have never claimed anything from the system, and won’t unless I exhaust everything, including my house.

I would find claiming, unless absolutely necessary, too humiliating to bear.

Been there, done that, in my case due to injury, take my word for it savings don’t last, we had to sell the house and start again as soon as I got back to work, but when you have dependants ( at that time two young children) principles get moved on the back burner.

Silver Fox

Err, I think that you missed the target by a wide margin!

Just commenting, somewhat tongue in cheek granted, but you did say not to use regular Army to fight irregulars, who do you sugest?

At a time when our military expenditure is being slashed to bits, I don’t think we are in a position to field something like the LRDG of WW2 or the present day specialist troops from the SAS, or possibly a locally recruited guerilla type force, not unknown for these types guerilla forces to work to their agenda.

It wouldn’t probably seem too bad, but how much longer can we afford to keep all the illegals on the same handout system, Soft touch G.B. no wonder they try any means possible to get here.
Jim.
Lincoln .7

We all know that this stuff in The Daily Fail is blown up considerably, but of course they have found a pair of archetypal scroungers.

Not checked the figures, but I don’t get how they manage to accumalate that sort of income from benefits, the money launched at illegals and immigrant workers is also a farce, before anyone jumps on my head and tells me that immigrants are all hard working, just look around, yes they take the minimum rate jobs, then claim working tax credits and even child allowances when in many cases their families aren’t even in the country.

I noticed a report a few days back, which stated very simply that adopting the “living wage” as a minimum wage would immediately save £2.2billion in welfare payments, so who are we funding? scroungers or lousy employers paying lousy wages.

Agree totally that no-one able to work should be better off on benefits than working, but are benefits too high or wages too low?, we all know that the Tory philosophy would have every-one but the select few on poverty income with no back up, but were is the balance?

Chaps,

If we maintain a professional, standing Army, it simply has to fight – now and again, otherwise it becomes useless. Pick the opposition carefully, make sure you’ve got a ‘get out’ clause and don’t fight alongside the Yanks.

What we haven’t yet taken on board is that you do not use soldiers of the regular Army to fight irregulars.

Who do sugest we use? G4S with their casual labour, minimum wage, workforce who may or may not turn up.

What is with politicians? selective memory or plain stupidity?

We will put no boots on the ground, there already are, with more to go, none combat troops only, advisors and training personnel only, just remind me now, Vietnam, maybe my old brain is loosing it, but weren’t the first American troops “advisors”.

In the meantime let’s just fire actual combat troops, no need for all these soldiers of course :rolleyes:

I don’t think anyone expects present day Germans, Japanese or any one else for that matter to wander round in sackcloth and ashes as apology for their forefathers, the reason we must never forget is a warning to all, as to just how savage so called civilised man can be, whether collectively or individually.

Would have been nice to think we had enough Harriers going spare to even do it, oh well nice try someone :p