Armed Forces Not Ready to Fight a War, Says Defence Secretary
The Armed Forces are not ready to fight a war, the Defence Secretary has claimed, while a military source told the Telegraph, “We can fight” but we “might be left dangerously obsolete”. The Telegraph has more.
John Healey said the military had been “hollowed out” and “underfunded” under the last Government to such an extent that it would not be able to deter the enemy if war broke out today.
He said: “The U.K., in keeping with many other nations, has essentially become very skilled and ready to conduct military operations. What we’ve not been ready to do is to fight. Unless we are ready to fight, we are not in shape to deter.
“This is at the heart of the NATO thinking. We’ve got to not just be capable of defending our NATO nations, but more importantly we’ve got to be more effective in the deterrence we provide against any future aggression.”
This week, Vladimir Putin’s allies gathered at a summit in Russia in what the Russian president claimed was the start of a new world order.
In attendance were Xi Jinping, the Chinese President, as well as the leaders of 36 countries including Iran, India, South Africa the UAE, Ethiopia and Egypt.
Military figures suggested Britain could fight but needed to ensure that it remained technologically advanced. A senior Army source told the Telegraph the British military was putting in the work to fight effectively in modern warfare.
“We can fight, no question,” said the source, who warned that the risk the British military faced in war was that it “might be left dangerously obsolete” because adversaries were more advanced.
“We’re ready to fight the last war. But we need to be ready to fight the next war,” he added.
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Well that will boost morale and recruitment!
Yes and isn’t the whole point of an ‘army’
to be able to fight and defend?
How many successive governments have taken their eye off this ball?
Their eye has been very much on the ball – that ball being the need to hamstring, emasculate and demoralise the Armed Forces to remove any threat that they might step in when Government policy can clearly be seen to be destroying the country (as almost happened under the Wilson Gov’t).
Their Commander-in-Chief (His Honourable Majesty King Charles III), is also well and truly on the side of those who would be, and are, busily engaged in exactly that destruction.
Britain Is Proof: Globalists Plan To Use Migrants As A Mercenary Army Against The West – Alt-Market.us
Importing a Mercenary Army while decimating the Armed Forces of the West.
It’s called Treason, Anti-White Genocide, and our politicians are complicit.
Many years ago, UK Column founder, retired Royal Navy Lt. Cmdr. Brian Gerrish described it thus:
“It’s as if a gigantic net is being slowly drawn around the British People”.
[And all the nations of the West]
“We might not be ready to fight but we’ve been working hard at the areas of highest priority.”
“Following intensive training exercises, I’m proud to say we can now identify our enemies’ pronouns from 2km away so there’s absolutely no danger of us misgendering them/zir/xey.”
Of much higher priority than say, oh, killing bad people for example.
That, and prioritising “representation” over competency and passion for the job in so many roles.
Thank goodness we have those thousands of highly trained and committed britons from the Calais Yacht Club available to answer the call at short notice.
Whew!
Fury as number of troops in Army to fall below 70,000 for the first time since Napoleonic Era | Daily Mail Online
To be fair, we saw Napoleon off in 1815, and haven’t heard from him since..
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Remind me: To which country are we paying £millions to stop Third World Invaders from crossing the Channel?
Apparently Chuckles is saying we need to be paying “our reparations” bill. Well if that hasn’t come from uncle Klaus I’m a Democrat. Looks like Windsor estates are going to be announcing a big sale.
What worries me the most is that we’ll be poised for China or Russia to attack, and the real threat is being invaded by the Army of the Isle of Man. Look West, not East…
‘The Spanish infantry had no training to operate with tanks, and Arman had no patience to wait for them. So he ordered his company forward without the accompanying infantry. Of his 15 tanks, three were disabled almost immediately by mines on the road to the town……The poor coordination of tank and infantry at Sesena would prove typical of the Spanish experience.’ Soviet Tank Operations in the (1936) Spanish Civil War, Steven J. Zaloga So the conflict in Ukraine in many ways is little different to the major European wars of 1914, 1936 and 1939. ‘The next war’ is already upon us. The Ukrainians are fighting it for us in line with the (so far) successful though unprincipled Western (and Chinese, whisper it) strategy of weakening Russia so that it can no longer invade its neighbours. If Ukraine crumbles, why would a Russia seeking to recreate itself with the scale of the USSR, to set itself up once more as a European superpower, why would such a Russia halt at Odessa? Mr Healey is correct. We do not look dangerous to a near peer continental adversary. How many armoured divisions do we have? None. That must change. Armoured divisions (remind me,… Read more »
Yes those must be the answer to the issue, given the current strategies!
A key part of the ‘next’ war, already in progress, is the struggle for unmanned air superiority. But, as Forbes notes, this is by no means a ‘Revolution in Military Affairs’ ‘It was only a matter of time before, paralleling the development of military biplanes in WW1, we started to see dedicated FPV fighters emerge which will not only bring down enemy drones but also counter the FPVs on the other side. The drone air war is becoming an air superiority contest in its own right.’ And FPV drones dropping grenades through tank hatches resemble nothing so much as WW1 biplanes dropping bombs on enemy trenches by hand. The battle for unmanned air superiority is not so dissimilar to the struggles at various altitudes between various Albatrosses, Fokkers, SPADs, Sopwith Camels, S.E. 5s and Bristol Fighters. Drones are already being fitted with defensive aids to protect against FPV fighter interceptor drones. As in WW1: ‘This contest has at least three possible outcomes: One is that defence gets ahead, and reconnaissance operations continue as at present, but with a steady rate of losses. The battlefield will continue to be under constant surveillance by both sides. Another is that offence will triumph,… Read more »