UK needs to reform its military as world enters third nuclear age, military chief warns

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1. If the world leaders could stop dragging us into a nuclear apocalypse instead of making plans for it that would be great.

2. The threat of nuclear war is very much a direct attack on the UK. Russia could bypass the EU countries and strike the UK. Europe would not respond in kind you can bet the house, if it’s left, on that. They would be cowed into obeisance.

   The whole idea of having sufficient ground forces and an airforce is to protect the country, help our allies in case of invasion and project power overseas in areas of UK interest.

   All UK political parties are leaving the country and its allies open to military threats due to inability to respond with adequate forces.

3. what’s the point having a conventional military if we’re all just gonna nuke eachother anyway, the entire military will be dead then smh

4. I will not fight until we get anime pleasure bots… but by then it will be bot warfare so I’ll have to sit it out

5. Blaaah Blaaah Blaaah.  Cyberattack is what we need to watch out for.

   More doom and gloom to keep the masses afraid. 

6. Military chief. What does that mean? A butt kisser who was able to take all crap thrown at him whilst he clawed his way to the top. An insane lunatic who dreams of war and camo. The heads of the armed forces are always idiots. History proves it.

7. Good luck trying to recruit the same people that you have hammered down for the past 10 years whilst trying to pay them minimum wage for the privilege.

8. Day 4828 of warmongering.

   If only these people had as much enthusiasm and energy for tackling homelessness, child poverty, housing crisis and saving the environment as they do for stoking WW3.

9. It must boil their piss that the working class are not signing up to die in their wars any more. The political elite can get fucked. I’ll go to war when they are in the battlefield leading from the front.

10. We don’t really need a strong military and aren’t in any immediate danger. Mod funding should go mostly towards the RAF and RN. We haven’t been invaded in nearly a millennium and our nuclear weapons are an effective deterrent

11. “reform” requires money, which has been systematically stripped out of the military, and we’re constantly told there isn’t enough of.

    Bluntly, it’s not going to happen.

12. How about, all our “leaders” go fight among themselves whilst all the normal people watch. Nobody wants war, apart from the so called elite, the rich and the arm manufacturers.

13. Third nuclear age? Wtf?

    We had one war which went nuclear and none have done so since, how on earth does that title even compute?

14. My mate quit the army said the living conditions where terrible. I think most of the lads he was with in there have moved on too, it’s really quite worrying .

15. Fuck going to war for big banks and bomb/ ammunition makers

16. So whats the plan lads? Is every government official just going to take it in turns to publicly state that we have a shit military, and then the PM himself is going to sign it off with a large shrug at the end?

    If only the people who’ve been saying this shit all week were capable of doing something.

17. Well the politicians completely destroyed the country, and ruined any sort of future worth fighting for, then the military made it clear that they didnt want White People around…

    Go get the diversity to fight for you ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

18. If they are implying nuclear war is likely it’s not worth it, we should all just commit suicide. Who the fuck wants to live through threads?

19. We should bring back national service to increase our reserves or even create a foreign legion of immigrants. But the problem will always be the UK government is fucking useless at organising anything of scale that doesn’t involve giving money to their mates.

20. I’m tired of being told I “need” to do this, or “need to prepare” for that. I’m just a poorly paid citizen trying to get by before I inevitably get sent off to be abused in an old people’s home, why tf does it always become “we” when some dumb political mf forgets how to talk in a conference and starts a war?

21. The more money somebody has then the longer their offspring should have mandatory conscription for.

22. Granted I’ve not read the article but if you mobilise a large land force to get fight potentially on a foreign shore.

    Said land force begins to win the war then nukes will inevitability start getting fired at said peoples homelands. What is the point in reality.

    People used to go to war to protect those back home but in the age of nuclear weapons they can be completely wiped out with a couple missiles.

23. We need to be in a position where we can fight off any aggressor ourselves without relying on an external force for backup.

    The special relationships and allyships are great but not set in stone.

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