Communication with the rest of the world
If one assumes that the defensive (or offensive) forces of any nation exist at the pleasure of that nation's current government, I think it would be incumbent on critics of government defense policy to try to recruit support within the very much larger constituency of non-military personnel. Arguments replete with acronyms and parochial idiom (Waddo, CAS, COS) are meaningless to potential supporters for their cause. The committed preach to the committed and dismiss those who live outside of their cloister as non-professionals. There are many whose professions are in other fields but have a strong interest in defense matters. Given the ungrammatical and shallow verbiage of many of the contributions to this thread, observers of it might conclude that the commentators are Neanderthal yobs who are only interested in their approaching pensions. I don't believe they are but it might be of great benefit to their cause if they expressed themselves in standard English.
Last edited by kilomikedelta; 1st Sep 2010 at 01:06.