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    Alexander - your very strange and warped idea of historical events is true comedy.

    As always of course you totally misinterpret what I was saying anyway and refer to the causes of war rather than the poor military state we were in prior to having to go to war in most cases. Which is what I refer to.

    I am not going into detail about your post #23 or #24 but I cannot resist responding to #22.
    As far as the Falklands was concerned - the early retirement of HMS Ark Royal and the plans to get rid of HMS Endurance along with other planned cuts including the planned sale of one of our small 'mini carriers' made the Argies think we would be unwilling and unable to re-take the islands. That is what prompted them to invade. After which the government learned the lesson and cancelled planned defence cuts. That is what I refer to. Our lack of conventional carrier support with airborne early warning radar lost us ships.

    In fact what you are actually saying underlines my point about needing sufficient flexible and modern forces to defend Britain's interests all over the world. Cutting defence always end in tears and wasted lives.

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