
Originally Posted by
Major Sinic
Perhaps your contempt for your adopted country colours your view on this, as on most things. Depending on one's source the UK has the fifth or sixth most powerful military force in the world despite its shortcomings. By almost any standard this places us firmly in the military premier league, despite the underfunding of the military since 1997, certain vanity projects excepted, coupled with its extensive global military operations under Blair's Labour government.
However whilst your contempt for the military is both unjustified and, I suspect, based on a chip on your shoulder which I have seen before, your suggestions regarding a change of emphasis toward civil defence and home security have merit in my opinion.
I have to say i do think our military resources have been overused in the role of being the world's policemen, when we should just stand back, let them blow each other to hell, or die of god knows how many war-generated diseases of failed infrastructure and hygiene
There comes a point where "humanitarian aid" is pointless when all it does is revitalise the combatants
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