The thought of the Britsh military going to war with crap kit would never happen, would it?
Can you just imagine the Daily Fail or Stun's headlines?
Quantity
has got a quality all of its own, but only if you are willing to accept 'cannon fodder' like attrition rates. There is no appetite for this in the UK right now; we even get "wrapped around the 'horror of war' axle" when we lost such small numbers as we did in the recent Afghanistan/Iraq skirmishes - we lose more in a single Harris bomber raid in one night than we lost in 8 years on TELIC in Iraq or on HERRICK in Afghanistan!
Just sayin'
LJ
Figures: In Mar 44 we lost 64 Lancasters and 31 Halifaxes in a single raid on Nuremburg - 670 men.
