Originally Posted by
mahogany bob
Finnningly Boy
Amalgamate the forces- Oh no not that again !
Well we know that it will never happen as there are far too many comfortable jobs up top! (more Admirals than ships ). The new CAS will never vote himself out of a job.
BUT with only 158,000 men in uniform do we need such a top heavy 3 pronged system - With the 3 arms fighting over a very small pie.
Inter service squabbles contributed to binning the Harrier early and buying 2 carriers which some think are very expensive luxuries!
All this has nothing to do with the services not being blended into a small town militia. Being small now is certainly not the signal for a mediocre future as a titular one man band force. The problems about squabbles over money affect all countries armed forces, including the USA. The problem is political tin ears and setting each against one another so they'll each destroy the other arms case for spending. This would increase for certain even when they're all wearing the same uniform. There'll still be a senior officer in charge of each branch within, still fighting over a much smaller (courtesy of amalgamation) slice of a smaller cake, it is a recipe for further contraction and irrelevance.
FB