The problem is it relies on people like me going out with a watering can and looking after the saplings. Any funding for them had to include a long term maintenance element, otherwise local councils … (View Post)

A Dunno about that - there are 60,000 civil servants at the MOD, more than the RN and RAF combined. We could swap them out and field 3 new divisions instead. Slightly baffled by your new found love o… (View Post)

I wouldn’t mind spending 3% if we took the same approach as the French - fully independent nukes + much more aggressive towards Russia. But there are people in this thread suggesting we should let th… (View Post)

I genuinely struggle to see the point of the armed forces beyond the nuclear deterrent. Any actual conflict with a proper adversary like Russia is immediately nuclear. Everything else is a waste of t… (View Post)

I would have thought the biggest priority now is a fully independent nuclear deterrent, like the French. We only have a decade’s worth before support from the Americans becomes necessary. Instead the… (View Post)