Shadowalker said:
Im just sad that all recent governments have done a disservice to our soldiers by cutting down on necessary equipment, providing them with inadequate equipment, and providing them with faulty equipment! The rot doesnt seem likely to end soon either!
Even still Shadow with all that is happening with kit, low wages and manpower reduction we still managed to cover OP Fresco the firefighter strikes with 50yr old fire engines (green godesses) deploy to both Afghanistan and Iraq aswell as peacekeeping duties around the world and still keep on top of it all
Now something like that wouldnt affect the US forces that much because of sheer numbers its simple they have a lot we dont
Kit they beat us hands down on kit doesnt matter if its a rucksack or a aircraft carrier they have the money to spend we dont
Unfortunately I have to say training on behalf of the British is starting to lack especially on the side of the RAF cant speak to much on the rest of the GB forces, but we still manage to cope
Peace keeping we have that down pat thanks to long service in Ireland all you had to do was watch the news about Iraq to see the difference when patrolling in the cities the British forces would be walking about wearing berets and carrying their rifles low
the US forces would be wearing full body armour kevlar helmets and rifles up in the shoulder its little touches like that, that make a difference
As someone said earlier sorry for not referring by name and quote when the British have their backs to the wall they are tough. Damn right, but thats not just the British if it were WWII would of finished a lot sooner Japan wouldnt of needed nuking and Iraq, N. Ireland and various other spots around the world would have an embassy and not a task force stationed there
When it comes to the Best of the Best you cant compare various nation forces like football players 1on1. We each have our strengths we each have our weaknesses thats why we have joint exercises and cross train with one another we learn from our mistakes. Russian tank doctrine is taught and employed by nearly every single tank regiment in the world as well as British, American and German tank doctrine.
As I have mentioned in the Beslan post, after the Berlin Olympics fiasco in which an entire countrys Olympic team was killed because of lack of experience by the German counter terrorism team. They contacted the experts, the SAS and now they are better same as the Americans special forces and the FBI hostage rescue team all train with the SAS to make themselves better just as we train with the Germans, the French, the Americans. Christ we will train with any one in a foreighn country for two reasons
1. They have something we want to know
2. How the hell else we gonna see the world, wars dont happen in nice places
Jay
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