It’s not really surprising. Even the Russians (a retired Russian officer) believes UK light infantry troops are the best in the world:
> As a recently retired officer from its planning directorate once said to me, with more enthusiasm than originality: “Britain has always had the best light infantry in the world, and the bastards get places faster than we would like.”
Most countries would probably classify Royal Marines as special forces (in terms of training). The UK classifies them as conventional troops
Why is the European subreddit full of british military news and images, are you guys trying to scare the french fishermen or something?
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I’m guessing this was a deliberately asymmetric wargame for testing out new equipment and tactics.
Nothing wrong with that. The purpose of training is to get better and to do that you often need to be on the receiving end of the ass kicking.
I find this type of news very hard to take at face value and very irritating as a general rule of thumb, not unlike the time the Indian Air Force claimed to have dominated the RAF in bilateral exercises.
This is, doubtless, one of those silly exercises (silly in how they seem, they serve a very real doctrinal value) heavily weighted in one side’s favour to Kobayashi Maru the losing side on how to fight against the odds.
It’s not unlike Swedish submarines “sinking” American carriers which is, let’s face it, absolutely preposterous.
Better to bleed in training that bleed in combat
Psh what about 1792
That’s too bad, I picked the US for my bracket. Who is facing the UK in the finals?
I can imagine 100 Britts beating 100 US soldiers.
But this is not the real balance.
USA would have bribed half the UK staff and bombed half the USA grunts 😉
This seems to happen a lot. I’m remembering when a Swedish submarine crew in a naval war game managed to sink (so called unsinkable) American aircraft carrier battle groups. For the bottomless pit of money that is the US military they sure do seem to not win many wars or war games
It’s ok though because Emma has two mom’s
Good thing we spend all that money on the US military.
Not this can’t be true someone told me European armies are useless..
Huh. That’s actually really interesting. Would like to know how my country would fair against other countries in this type of scenario. Really interesting.
The Marines are Specialist Solders your Average G.I. isn’t/aren’t .
i.e. Marines go on the Join the SBS if they are Good Enough !
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British boner intensifies.
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It’s not really surprising. Even the Russians (a retired Russian officer) believes UK light infantry troops are the best in the world:
> As a recently retired officer from its planning directorate once said to me, with more enthusiasm than originality: “Britain has always had the best light infantry in the world, and the bastards get places faster than we would like.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/19/nuclear-weapons-uk-defence-review-russia
Most countries would probably classify Royal Marines as special forces (in terms of training). The UK classifies them as conventional troops
Why is the European subreddit full of british military news and images, are you guys trying to scare the french fishermen or something?
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I’m guessing this was a deliberately asymmetric wargame for testing out new equipment and tactics.
Nothing wrong with that. The purpose of training is to get better and to do that you often need to be on the receiving end of the ass kicking.
I find this type of news very hard to take at face value and very irritating as a general rule of thumb, not unlike the time the Indian Air Force claimed to have dominated the RAF in bilateral exercises.
This is, doubtless, one of those silly exercises (silly in how they seem, they serve a very real doctrinal value) heavily weighted in one side’s favour to Kobayashi Maru the losing side on how to fight against the odds.
It’s not unlike Swedish submarines “sinking” American carriers which is, let’s face it, absolutely preposterous.
Better to bleed in training that bleed in combat
Psh what about 1792
That’s too bad, I picked the US for my bracket. Who is facing the UK in the finals?
I can imagine 100 Britts beating 100 US soldiers.
But this is not the real balance.
USA would have bribed half the UK staff and bombed half the USA grunts 😉
This seems to happen a lot. I’m remembering when a Swedish submarine crew in a naval war game managed to sink (so called unsinkable) American aircraft carrier battle groups. For the bottomless pit of money that is the US military they sure do seem to not win many wars or war games
It’s ok though because Emma has two mom’s
Good thing we spend all that money on the US military.
Not this can’t be true someone told me European armies are useless..
Huh. That’s actually really interesting. Would like to know how my country would fair against other countries in this type of scenario. Really interesting.
The Marines are Specialist Solders your Average G.I. isn’t/aren’t .
i.e. Marines go on the Join the SBS if they are Good Enough !
The brits have food soldiers this isn’t news
Happy Captain Sharpe noises