Aircraft Availability
Originally Posted by JTO
Day-to-day we have little or no flesh on the bone and only receive money for a pared-back training capability. When we go on ops the financial gap has to be spanned which gives the Treasury (rather than the MoD) the control on what capability we deploy. It is no exaggeration when I say it can descend into a bartering session in which the MoD is asked what it can do for £X million.
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And then to compound it you have Corbyn on TV this morning spouting that he still hasn't made his mind up re allowing his MP's a free vote... Nothing like being decisive is there. Ohhh and before I forget he was wittering on about his clear mandate again, but at least he has bought himself a decent suit... Either that or he borrowed it.
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When all you have is a hammer (or 8 Tornadoes), every problem looks like a nail. The Government's apparent unwillingness to learn about fighting without clear military objectives is breathtakingly arrogant.
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The whole thing smacks of a knee jerk reaction to Paris:
Within 2 days we were suddenly committing x billions more to defence. Where was that plucked from? What detailed assessment of security preceded the announcement?
Now we are on the fringe of bombing somewhere we had already elected not to and which has been bombed anyway in our absence. To what end? Whats the outcome we want. In the meantime a NATO country bombs those that might engage the people we want to remove, whilst Russia props up the regime we want to remove, and also bombs the enemy that wants to exploit the vacuum it would create.
No wonder Corbyn is stepping back. It's a cluster**** of epic proportions.
However if tasked, I'm sure we'll carry out the task in the professional manner one would expect.
Within 2 days we were suddenly committing x billions more to defence. Where was that plucked from? What detailed assessment of security preceded the announcement?
Now we are on the fringe of bombing somewhere we had already elected not to and which has been bombed anyway in our absence. To what end? Whats the outcome we want. In the meantime a NATO country bombs those that might engage the people we want to remove, whilst Russia props up the regime we want to remove, and also bombs the enemy that wants to exploit the vacuum it would create.
No wonder Corbyn is stepping back. It's a cluster**** of epic proportions.
However if tasked, I'm sure we'll carry out the task in the professional manner one would expect.
