MaroonMan4
19th Jun 2011, 08:48
I am not naive enough to recognise that media, tabloids and broadsheets do not attempt to manipulate public opinion and ultimately HMG policy making...
But at last thankfully (for the future of the UK's defence) there appears to be a united and coherent force that is eventually pulling together to make it perfectly clear to the Prime Minister exactly what he is doing to this nation's Armed Forces. The letter in today's Sunday Telegraph is but one example.
If ever there was a time for all 3 Services to put aside the senior levels of land grabs and single Service politicking then now is that time.....or forever look back in history as one of those lost moments.
I was very impressed with CNS and his robust declaration and this is the immediate counter to the MOD civil serpent or accountant that weare managing to deliver contingency operations andcontinuing with the enduring war in Afghanistan.
If this is what the Prime Minister believes and also what the British public believe, then they couldn't be further from the truth and the significant increase in cost that this attempt at 'just enough - just in time' approach to warfare rather than having an Armed Forces that is resourced to do the job properly the first time round.
Well done to to those both serving and in areas of influence in making a formal record for history to review of the folly that this account driven defence policy is doing to anyGovernment's number one mandate - defence of the country.
Now on the other hand if we really are that broke and the Prime Minister really does want to save the levels of money that he has obviously charged Ministers Letwin and Maud to find in the 3 Month Exercise, then let's stop pretending as a nation and act like Greece or a similar nation that the Treasury is aligning our defences to and let's just pull out of Afghanistan, Libya and anywhere else where we have our Foreign Office fingers in the pie backed up by the nation's military and just look after the island nation of the United Kingdom. No NATO, no EU force, No ISAF or any other Coalition intervent/peace keeping force against 'crimes to humanity' or disaster relief.
Just a plain, simple, cheap and very effective Home Defence Force.
But at last thankfully (for the future of the UK's defence) there appears to be a united and coherent force that is eventually pulling together to make it perfectly clear to the Prime Minister exactly what he is doing to this nation's Armed Forces. The letter in today's Sunday Telegraph is but one example.
If ever there was a time for all 3 Services to put aside the senior levels of land grabs and single Service politicking then now is that time.....or forever look back in history as one of those lost moments.
I was very impressed with CNS and his robust declaration and this is the immediate counter to the MOD civil serpent or accountant that weare managing to deliver contingency operations andcontinuing with the enduring war in Afghanistan.
If this is what the Prime Minister believes and also what the British public believe, then they couldn't be further from the truth and the significant increase in cost that this attempt at 'just enough - just in time' approach to warfare rather than having an Armed Forces that is resourced to do the job properly the first time round.
Well done to to those both serving and in areas of influence in making a formal record for history to review of the folly that this account driven defence policy is doing to anyGovernment's number one mandate - defence of the country.
Now on the other hand if we really are that broke and the Prime Minister really does want to save the levels of money that he has obviously charged Ministers Letwin and Maud to find in the 3 Month Exercise, then let's stop pretending as a nation and act like Greece or a similar nation that the Treasury is aligning our defences to and let's just pull out of Afghanistan, Libya and anywhere else where we have our Foreign Office fingers in the pie backed up by the nation's military and just look after the island nation of the United Kingdom. No NATO, no EU force, No ISAF or any other Coalition intervent/peace keeping force against 'crimes to humanity' or disaster relief.
Just a plain, simple, cheap and very effective Home Defence Force.