UK is a P5 nation as well, which changes all of the calculus.
As to the state of the RN there was (and still is) a camp that believes that RN had to cannibalize itself in order to float carriers - especially on the people front. That camp would say that the current state OF the RN was...
Very encouraging to see an alternate policy proposed, rather than simply nay-saying the current policy. This allows consideration on merits, rather than continuing to consider everything on origin - ie who proposed the policy.
Hopefully this is a new trend.
I worked with/for him a few times. He was a very polarizing figure (something I have intimate knowledge of myself), and offered many opportunities for further polarization....
I consider him to have been a net positive. Hillier on the other hand....
Gen Eyre, LGen Rouleau, and Erin O'Toole are on the Board, and I believe Janice Stein is as well.
I have spoken with Eliot Pence, and he has a very clear vision for both Dominion, and the defence industrial base.
I would agree if the purpose of the drone is terminal attack, but not so much one with an ISR etc payload. I prefer to think of all drones as consumables...at least for the micro to most of the medium classed drones
Umm...rocket attacks in the vicinity is SOP in many theatres we have been involved in. In the Iraq mission, I sincerely doubt anyone in CJOC even noticed that Union III was targeted by another rocket attack, let alone reported it to the PMO.
It is only real when.....what exactly?
I can't believe that you are falling for this. Obviously contracts are lame, and the tool of libcuck elites.. Trips abroad should include cargo planes to bring home tangible proof, like bags of money, boatloads of weapons, thousands of immediate jobs...
Because the facilities are mostly surrounded by civilians the US would have to use precision fires be they missiles or bombs. There is a finite number of those in stock, not just in the US but throughout "the West". Those are exactly the same munitions that will be needed in any future...
The disruption to the functioning the Nation in times of increased certainty is not a rounding error. Not sure that this is a good time to take the 3 PPCLI "there must be a harder way" approach
If an adversary has the ability to launch a new constellation of micros sitting on the shelf right now to provide them with PNT that changes things. Likely adversaries are also less likey to require precision strikes to strike well known and plotted targets in an area the size of - let's say -...
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