Webf fella,
When are you going to pull your head out of your hole and read and digest some of the seemingly watertight stats you spout as hard evidence for the superiority of the RN.
Quote As for cost effectiveness, in 1981 Keith Speed MP got sacked for pointing out that the Royal Navy and maritime elements of the RAF provided 70% of NATO forces in the Eastern Atlantic for approx 23% of the defence budget, but BAOR and RAF Germany provided 10% of NATO forces in central Europe for 40% of the defence budget.
So the fact that when the might of the free worlds armed forces were deployed to Battlefield Germany it surprises you that our contribution was in relative hardware terms small?? And yet your savvy enough to reinforce that the RN, whose primary resposibility was ASW in the GIUK gap, contributed a large proportion of the total deployed forces....
I have no real desire to get involved in a slanging match but there is a serious case at the heart of the argument.
Unless public opinion changes, ie We go to war and lots of people die, we aren't going to get anymore money. Ipso facto we can't afford everything and hard decisions have to be made, now I've yet to be convinced that scrapping the SHar is the right decision but clouding the argument with half arsed statements and barrack room lawyer bravado is demeaning to the force you wish to serve.
You have a point, make it succinctly and accurately and you may find people have the tendency to agree.
As for you alpha, don't make me laugh.
