Reply to post: Re: 2% of GDP on Defence

National Audit Office: UK's military is buying more than it can afford

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Re: 2% of GDP on Defence

Actually if you look at what the US government is saying, and what the UK government is replying, it is ALL about money. How much money the British taxpayer is going to fork over to the American shareholder, executive and the rest of the MICC.

As a few other comments have pointed out, the UK today - and in the foreseeable future - faces few serious military threats. The real threats that could take us down are of a nature against which weapons are utterly useless - for instance hyperinflation, massive immigration, degradation of our food and fresh water, etc.

The UK would do well to take a leaf out of Russia's book. Neither country has any plans to attack anyone else or to grab anyone else's resources. So the problem is just a matter of perimeter defence. The UK's perimeter, of course, is vastly smaller than Russia's. Moreover, much of it is somewhat protected by friendly (and at the moment allied) nations. All we need is a small but effective fleet - no aircraft carriers need apply - with maybe a dozen good hunter-killer submarines, powerful missile and aircraft defences against bombers and warships, and a small but highly automated and mobile army as a last line of defence. We would be far safer without thermonuclear weapons, which merely make us a default target in any exchange of such weapons that breaks out for any reason anywhere in the world.

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