tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6254362504495980377.post2588969001118271531..comments2024-03-20T12:03:26.126+00:00Comments on Thin Pinstriped Line: To spend, to save, to cut, to deploy - the fiscal challenges facing Defence. Sir Humphreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08704774192275240783noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6254362504495980377.post-18931262240432530522013-07-01T23:10:27.169+01:002013-07-01T23:10:27.169+01:00I think the answer is somewhere in between. Yes, ...I think the answer is somewhere in between. Yes, the UK can conduct significant military operations far away from home for an extended period of time. But don't act like the UK has not gotten valuable assistance from their cousins across the pond. <br /><br />I know for a fact that there has been alot of logistical assistance provided by the U.S. to the UK. Not to mention the air support, intelligence, and myriad other tasks that the U.S. has helped the UK with in Iraq and Afghanistan. And do we really need to get into how the U.S. bailed out the UK (and the Iraqi government) in Basra in 2008?<br /><br />So while the UK can conduct independent ops, TELIC and HERRICK would have been alot more costly (both in blood and treasure) if it were not for the U.S.Craignoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6254362504495980377.post-14808219074132515552013-06-19T19:51:25.438+01:002013-06-19T19:51:25.438+01:00Ianeon - while I enormously value and appreciate y...Ianeon - while I enormously value and appreciate you taking the time to comment, I do sometimes read your posts with the image of Eeyore sitting behind a PC :-)<br /><br />Your comments about requiring US assistance are utterly false. The UK is not remotely reliant on the US for logistic support in HERRICK or TELIC, and has kept 10,000 troops deployed for many years without it. <br />I presume that as its only 10,000 troops many thousands of miles from home, we are somehow a failed state still?Sir Humphreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08704774192275240783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6254362504495980377.post-37495535277480073172013-06-19T13:58:56.906+01:002013-06-19T13:58:56.906+01:00I agree with this. I agree with this. Jeneral28https://www.blogger.com/profile/16332640271661260029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6254362504495980377.post-65695985483317941712013-06-17T18:00:38.624+01:002013-06-17T18:00:38.624+01:00here here Sir H.
Last paragraph sums it up rather...here here Sir H.<br /><br />Last paragraph sums it up rather nicely. <br /><br />mikenoreply@blogger.com