Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Our military's job is to defend British interests and to act as an arm to our foreign policy, providing it with teeth.
Our interests are worldwide and are complex and varied. That does mean a lot more than defending the shores of the UK.
We also have an obligation to our allies and to the UN. It is right that we live up to those obligations. Our military capability enables the UK to punch way above our weight when it comes to international negotiations and help us to be a force for good in the world.
While our forces are woefully underfunded and are far to small we nevertheless have a range of capabilities and above all experience exceeding almost every country other than the USA. This is why British Forces are needed for some of the more complex and demanding jobs.
Well with all the cuts the goverment are making we wont be punching much longer more like a light slap
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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In Australia, large sectors of the Parliament say they won't have another Windsor after the present one. New Zealand and Canada expected to follow suit.
Not even recent image-making in Australia and New Zealand is going to change that!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
sometimes i despair alex, what has that to do with defence spending?
Watching the news Dc is thinking of doing another U turn on this matter , hed better be careful he might start getting dizzy .
