They still are peerless in many ways, no other country could project 5% of the firepower into the Gulf that the US has in the last four weeks. There is something else going on with the Hormuz other t… (View Post)

We trashed everything in Basra although the destroying the fresh water supply caused a lot more issues than the damage to the power system. At least we had the wits to lie about it and blame the subs… (View Post)

As might be expected from the calibre of the cardboard cut-outs that promulgate it, the good guys/bad guys school of conflict analysis is utter wank. As far as nation states are concerned, it's … (View Post)

The SBA is very rarely graced by the RN, it's Club Med for the RAF. I only ever went there when I was on my RAF exchange. In an unexpected turn of events the weather in North Wales became bad wi… (View Post)

I can see the argument for EU+UK (particularly after Rejoin) but for Australia and Japan that would a severe downgrade of defensive alliances. The EU+UK's ability to project power into the Indo-… (View Post)