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jonas
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Howard Wheeldon article

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Howard Wheeldon hopefully puts even more pressure on the Treasury to provide extra funding for defence :-

http://www.defencesynergia.co.uk/vital- ... arch-2018/

Sorry Mod my mistake, could you transfer this to 'General Discussions@ :oops:

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A good article, definitely deserves to stand out (in pop music the best of 2018 compilation would have come out late in the year).

Concentration of force surely is hammered in on every course, at every level, but where we are currently lacking is rapid dispersal (as a precursor to the former) and self-healing networks (guaranteeing resilience):
" Speaking in front of the joint House of Commons/House of Lords National Security Strategy Committee, the immediate former Joint Forces Commander, General Sir Richard Barrons who retired from the Army in 2016 said that the UK’s defence infrastructure had been eclipsed by new technology and he claimed that Britain’s obsolete military hardware means that Russian and Chinese missiles could wipe it out from thousands of miles away."
- so you have to have the capability and capacity for precision fires from distance; but it would be foolish to assume that a peer opponent would not have them, too (ehhrm: capability x capacity is what counts)
Ever-lasting truths: Multi-year budgets/ planning by necessity have to address the painful questions; more often than not the Either-Or prevails over Both-And.
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