Perhaps think about this: Japan and Germany spend much less on defence in the first decades after the Second World War – and they surpassed the USA and Britain economically, had higher living standards etc. Britain was already ruined by the amount it has to spent for the Second World War – and it was further weakened by the relatively high defence spending in the Cold War. The irony of history is that the loosers of the Second World War were the economically the winners of the second half of the 20th century – whereas all the major winners (USA, Russia, Britain) lost heavily in case of productivity, exports, living standard etc.
Leon, i’m not feeling it for you and i’m trying to see if you have some kind of underlying UK bashing going on there, because that is where I see it coming from? :confused:
I think that believing that germany and Japan were being in someway ‘prudent’, as you would intimate is probably a bit too stretched for my liking.
The fact is, is that the ‘winning nations’ were actually paying the very nations that lost, for that win and investing in one way or the other to try and get those nations back on their feet.
I’m not going to go too far into it, but I believe VW are a good example of that.
How I see it, and no I’m not any kind of naval expert, is that one way or another, I want to see my navy have what it needs in order to cover its obligations and offer me and my friends a good level of protection with good kit.
I don’t know where the threat might come from, but then that is exactly the point at hand.
The fact is that apart from one or two (yourself being one of them), I am constantly told by people who do know more than me, that as a nation WE DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH ASSETS – PERIOD, which is good enough for me.
Unfortunately People such as yourself will never ever persuede me with the ‘it’ll be alright on the night’ kind of attitude, when we are already into the next day after the night in question.
I am involved in all kinds of major projects, nothing to do with warfighting, but all to do with infrastructure, which as a nation we do need and it still takes frustratingly too many bloody years to happen.
If I, or many others had a proverbial crystal ball so that we could spend exactly the minimum amount of money at exactly the right time to take care of all issues when they arise, then i’d be a rich rich man because i’d be using it for my own personal gain. The sad fact is we havent and i’m not!!!:( (mores the pity).
17 first class destroyers and frigates..
Please help me out here. You portray yourself as a knowledgeable, rational intelligent individual, whereas there’s me with poor maths for example, please tell me what 13 added to 6 equals? :rolleyes:
You expect people to hear a purported educated argument, yet you fail to even check your posting for a simple maths calculation.
is much more than most navies have – including navies of states, which are economically stronger than Britain..
Excellent, I’m happy with that situation so long may it continue..:diablo:……..once we get there of course which is unlikely. 🙁
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