[Sirius]

Originally Posted by heero_yuy

That's what the Europhiles continue to spout. The reality is rather different. The EU has become a divisive, bureaucratic interfering autocratic and undemocratic organization and we'd be well shot of it.

Nato is toothless because its member states army's are no more than a token gesture these days. when i was a member of the Armored corp we had 1200 tanks, now we have 50 if the proposed latest cuts hold firm and half of those are in Alberta Canada

The proposed cuts mean that the country which invented the tank has signalled it is to surrender almost a century’s experience of fighting armoured warfare.

The move also means that the Ministry of Defence will once again throw away billions of pounds in equipment after flushing away £3.6 billion on the new Nimrod reconnaissance aircraft along with millions on axing aircraft carriers and Harrier jets.

Under the plans the 400 strong fleet of Challenger 2 main battle tanks, that played a key role throughout the Iraq campaign, could be reduced to as little as 50 tanks, enough to equip just one regiment.