Project Wavell - the end of the RAF in Cyprus?
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Project Wavell announcement has been delayed to on or before the 17th march.
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vecvechookattack - what a stupid and ignorant thing to write. I wonder if I can guess you are British Army. That august organisation that even after 8 years in Afghanistan has made so little progress and was so badly prepared that it depends on huge modernisation programmes via UORs. And can only think of one war as being "the" war thus taking all the wrong lessons for the future. Worst of all is the Army's total lack of understanding air power.
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
VV actually has a point, a subtle one however. Servicemen are motivated by careers; contractors by money. The motivations are different and flexibility is variable.
What evidence is there to show that the Army was so badly prepared? With Defence spending so tight the Army, and the others, have to live by the day. If there is a problem it lies with procurement and production which in asymetric warfare is esentially a slow, reactive, beast against a non-technological nimble adversary. One is risk averse and the other is fighting a guerilla camaign.
The question is how far off is the future? During WW2, how far did we prepare for WW3? The USA was well ahead of us but even there they fought the war they were fighting and not the next one that they might have had to fight.
Evidence?
That august organisation that even after 8 years in Afghanistan has made so little progress and was so badly prepared that it depends on huge modernisation programmes via UORs.
And can only think of one war as being "the" war thus taking all the wrong lessons for the future.
Worst of all is the Army's total lack of understanding air power.
