CM, of course you are right, it was just a gentle ribbing.
My real target was their lordships bleating about their battleships. We haven't got them; we won't get them for 10 years if that; the threat is now.
All their lordships are really saying is I told you so except of course the world has moved on. As a whole the UK Armed Forces are, as MJF
said, immeasurably stronger than in 1982, the Argentinian Forces are quantitively reduced from 1982.
It's a different ball game. Maybe in 20 years time we shall need the carriers and maybe in the next 10 years it will be proven that we were wrong to retire the Harriers but it is all financially driven risk.
Last edited by Pontius Navigator; 4th Apr 2012 at 08:04.