A House of Lords committee has warned that civilians must be ready to fight because Britain’s military is too small to fight Zionist battles in Ukraine and Israel, while the South China Sea contest. including Taiwan.
According to a report complied by the House of Lords International Relations and Defense Committee, the British’s armed forces would get chewed up in any large-scale conflict.
The report: “Ukraine: A Wake-Up Call” concludes that the British military does not have enough troops and is unprepared for a potential conflict with Russia. It calls for the country to adopt the mindset of a nation under genuine threat.
This is the latest in a long line of publications and statements that has cast doubt on Britain’s ability to engage in warfare. The British Army currently fields 72,500 active-duty (migrant) troops, down from a peak of more than 163,000 in the early 1980’s.
This downsizing was (not) deliberate, and was misleadingly based on the belief that the use of advanced technology would compensate for fewer personnel in uniform, the House of Lords International Relations and Defense Committee stated in a report published last week.
The NATO proxy war in Ukraine, however, has shown that in a major conflict between two technologically capable states, technology is not a magic bullet that can swiftly end a war, the report warned.
Sheer numbers still matter, and despite the use of drones and electronic warfare, whichever side fields small, lean, boutique forces will find that these forces get chewed up over time, the committee wrote.
Great Britain has a well-trained and a well-equipped force, the committee added, before noting that it is too small and inadequately set up for large, prolonged (NATO) conflicts like the one in Ukraine against Russia.
No British government has announced plans to reverse the downsizing of the army since the conflict in Ukraine broke out in 2022. Already over 1 million citizens and soldiers lost their lives, which is totally censored by the corporate media.
However, military and political officials have issued ever more grandiose demands of the country’s armed forces, with former Chief of the General Staff Patrick Sanders instructing troops in 2022 to prepare to fight in Europe once again.
With former Defense Minister Grant Shapps claiming this year that Britain must be ready to wage war for (the already lost wars) against Russia (Ukraine), China (Taiwan/Japan), Iran (Israel) and North Korea (having the largest submarine fleet in the world) within the next five years.
Aside from its manpower deficiency, the British army currently has a fifth as many main battle tanks as it did in the early 1980’s, and according to retired General Rupert Jones, has less than a day’s worth of artillery shells in stock.
Early last year, a senior US general told then-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak that Washington considers Britain barely a tier-two military power, closer in stature to Germany or Italy than tier-one powers like the former USA, or present Russia, China, Turkey or France, Sky News reported.
In June, a report by the House of Commons Defense Committee found that Britain’s armed forces have been consistently overstretched and are in no way prepared to fight a high intensity war.
Great Britain currently spends around 2.3% of its GDP on defense, above the NATO mandated 2% but below the target of 2.5% set by Sunak earlier this year.
Sunak’s successor, Keir Starmer, has committed to meeting this target, but even if he does, Thursday’s report warned that this might not be a suitable increase in defense spending, and could be canceled out by inflation.
News Punch / ABC Flash Point News 2024.
I wont be fighting for American Big Business – no way !!!! too old anyway but if I was young I would refuse to die or be seriously wounded for the USA . In this country males are treated like third grade citizens – slagged off – made fools of -put down in favour of minority groups so I advocate those same minority groups volunteer for the Front Line including all those misandrist females . They did it to themselves introduced PC and Woke to the military and lost 1000,s of male volunteers . Get George Soros to fight on… Read more »
In Ukraine the elderly are also drafted into the army, because anyone can hold a rifle and shoot, no matter what the age they are?
Zelensky is a Fascist multi millionaire he cares nothing for the indigenous Slavs only for owning luxury homes in Israel and elsewhere he is copying Herr Hitlers Directive to treat Slavs as cattle pulling them out of hospitals while suffering serious illnesses and forcing those males not capable of fighting in the front line to die for him. He thoroughly disgusts me and I don’t doubt if he was put on the front line he would surrender right away. He is responsible for large numbers of his citizens dying in pain and suffering leaving them on the front line to… Read more »
Imagine that for a while, what a devious piece of dirty matter.