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Old 15th Dec 2017, 17:42
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A civvie's two penneth: surely two can play the same game

Hi Guys,

When I was a very small child in the early 1940s I, along with everybody else in the civvy population, possessed a government issued gas mask. At the time it was feared that 'Jerry' might bomb us with gas.

In fact that never happened. I am told that the reason we were not gassed was because Britain possessed an equal capacity for gas warfare with Germany and they didn't want to risk a tit-for-tat.

So perhaps the remedy to the threat of Russian cable cutting would be for us to have cable cutting assets equally capable to those of the Russians.

BP.
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