Originally Posted by ORAC
...guaranteed to put the army's nose out of joint.
Nope; just checked and nose is very much intact. I am however perplexed at the statement:
Originally Posted by Critical Reaction
.... No one challenges our security: no credible risks confront Britain either the way they have just in living memory, still less in the existence-defining manner other countries today have to cope with. We don’t face demographic disintegration on the Russia model, we’re not locked in nuclear and territorial MADness a la India and Pakistan, we’re not a chaotically modernising oligarchic, race-stricken kleptocracy or narco-state on the Brazilian and Mexican lines, and nor are we a seething, superficial theocracy in the Saudi manner. We’re stable, unthreatened and secure, albeit recently prone to engaging in small wars of choice.
which is then followed by:
Originally Posted by Critical Reaction
.... Britain needs nuclear weapons
and:
Originally Posted by Critical Reaction
.... The Queen Elizabeth and the Prince of Wales might well be justified on paper as devices to ‘project power’, but what they really represent is the ability, if chosen, to act alone. ................ Build the carriers
erm - why?
