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After recent remarks by Lefty Corbynski  about how,if he ever got to be PM , he would only tolerate a castrated version of  our nuclear submarine deterrent ,our armed forces being reduced to accommodate many part time posts & reservists & now we have destroyers that,due to possible engine failure, could be no more than sitting ducks in a combat situation , it seems to me that the defence of this realm is entering choppy waters.

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After recent remarks by Lefty Corbynski  about how,if he ever got to be PM , he would only tolerate a castrated version of  our nuclear submarine deterrent ,our armed forces being reduced to accommodate many part time posts & reservists & now we have destroyers that,due to possible engine failure, could be no more than sitting ducks in a combat situation , it seems to me that the defence of this realm is entering choppy waters.

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Interesting scenario on BBC2 last night, called War Room. Using the kind of people likely to be involved in this decision making; it came down to a likely nuclear strike on London killing millions of Brits. The response option was either to launch our Trident nukes when the Russians launched, or not. The majority view was not to launch, on the basis that a tit for tat revenge strike, killing millions of Russian civilians, was rather pointless. In which case, why bother having Trident?

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It worked all through the cold war. MAD without nuclear weapons, however, is no longer a deterrent. The deterrent is in the threat of use. Even Ronald Reagan admitted (in private) that he wouldn't push the button, but that didn't stop his beligerency towards the USSR which they believed was sincere.

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It has certainly kept the peace with "right thinking" nations for the last 70 years & ensured that more conventional warfare is the limit of combat operations. The only problem is some renegade state or a gang of terrorists getting a nuclear capability.

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Obs you're just being your usual "argument for arguments sake" self. Davy was at pains to point out that any warfare since 1945 has been "conventional". Do you imagine that, had the western powers abandoned nuclear weapons,  the USSR wouldn't have used the fact that they had them to claim victory? Pointless argument, give up.

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I think , in the greater scheme of things, the wars you mentioned Obs were minor skirmishes compared to what would be a major conflagration if East had ever met West in the great game of Risk. Nuking is great to wipe out a country if you don't wish to go there for a few hundred years but otherwise conventional weapons must be favourite.

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Most of the major wars of the Cold War, were basically proxy wars between the US and Russia, giving both the opportunity to try out their latest weaponry. Ultimately, the Soviet economy couldn't sustain the required level of investment. The prog I quoted from, suggested that when those in command were presented with the option of retaliating to a Nuclear ICBM strike on London, by launching our Trident ICBMs; they chose not to do so. There's a degree of logic in that response, in saying why kill millions of Russian civilians in response to them killing millions of Londoners. But it presents the question, if were not going to use Trident, why go to the expense of having it?

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Most of the major wars of the Cold War, were basically proxy wars between the US and Russia, giving both the opportunity to try out their latest weaponry. Ultimately, the Soviet economy couldn't sustain the required level of investment. The prog I quoted from, suggested that when those in command were presented with the option of retaliating to a Nuclear ICBM strike on London, by launching our Trident ICBMs; they chose not to do so. There's a degree of logic in that response, in saying why kill millions of Russian civilians in response to them killing millions of Londoners. But it presents the question, if were not going to use Trident, why go to the expense of having it?

 

Good job the lefty lot weren't in charge during WW2 then.... our bombers would have been parked on the runway while Germany blitzed London

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Carriers allow you to project force around the globe (EG Falklands), and as with Trident, are merely an expensive pretension to being an independent super-power.  Harriers were a good aircraft, made even better in the Falklands by the skill of our pilots, but sadly, in the arms race, last year's model. Think the starting point prior to arms procurement, is to answer the question, what exactly do we want in terms of capability, rather than prestige ?   :unsure:

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