Originally Posted by
Asturias56
Trouble is we may well need a large standing army of course - we spent 2 years building one in 1914 and in 1939
To do what exactly? The land threat to NATO is on the Finnish, Norwegian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish Turkish and then arguably Romanian, Bulgarian, Greek, German, Czech, Slovakian, Swedish borders.
BAOR (and RAFG for that matter) were for a very different geopolitical situation.
The maritime threat is a lot closer to us.