Re: What meessage does this send?
Originally Posted by
Longdogs
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I'm not sure about 99%, Certainly anyone under 40 probably doesn't give a damn. If 617 squadron was a game on their phone, they might be interested.
Originally Posted by
Longdogs
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I just hope the land isn't sold off for new housing for economic migrants.
I suppose that with the government's constant decimation of our armed forces, it is inevitable that not only personnel and hardware, properties will also have to be sold off.
The root cause of all of this is the questionable need to reduce the size of our armed forces.
If the government were to agree to accept that this country is no longer the 'world's policeman' and that we no longer have the means to involve ourselves in trouble spots all over the world, we could manage with the low level of armed forces we presently have.
We may still have the ability to defend our own country against all but the most determined superpower (America, Russia and China), but that is all.
As I have said before, I think our best course of action would be to take the same position as Switzerland and stop pretending to be a world power.