we try, sometimes for the best of intentions, to do to much
we try and keep a full capability industry similar to the Americans
we also, because it's a great excuse, to try on insist on "interoperability" with our American friends
So we buy the wrong sort of kit for the wars we actually finish up fighting at vast cost
We don't need Type 45 destroyers, nor do we need the Typhoon nor heavy armoured brigades
However politicians are scared s****** of telling the papers and the Great British Public that we no longer have an Empire
Just when did maintaining a comprehensive Tactical Military Capability become representative of Imperialistic ambitions? And would you criticise the rest of the world for pursuing similar Defence Policies and ambitions. Or is it just the plot of land with a Union Flag sprouting from it that gets your dander up? People like you, Heathrow old fruit, have advanced this very argument for decades, regardless of the state of the world and the state of the U.K.
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