@@geofflewis8599 Three days max., Sir. British forces have near-zero real tank experience. Remember 3RTR landing at St Omer? Within 24 hours, all bar three of their tanks were either broken (mechanical failure) or destroyed).
@@Charlie-o1r4p have you ever just sat back and listened to the sound a Rotorsaucer makes when you are booting up and performing safety checks? Have you ever also wondered if the global Public will get to experience them in this lifetime ?
6 months really? How long has Ukraine held out for now, and they don’t have British forces training or resources..another ploy to angle for more MoD funding from the taxpayers
Doubt anyone would bother a country without borders isn't a country Knowing this country while your off fighting they would move a migrant family into your council house
@charlesburgoyne-probyn6044 Maybe try fighting back on home soil MIGHT make the difference between 100% cowardice and being a man and possibly regaining your homeland. But then, that would mean being brave, having to do something difficult and dangerous, and having a backbone instead of watching invaders kick a bag of wind around a patch of grass or hiding away while invaders destroy your women and children?
It’s far worse than that. Of the 72,000 only about 30% of those are combat troops, the remaining are logistics and support That gives you a fighting force of 20,000.
iam a vet of 15years royal engineers 70s and 80s talked to lads who have served in Afghanistan they said they always short of small arms ammo and had to ask Americans to give them some
I was with US 75th RR. Met many UK troops, good soldiering skills. But I got to tell you, the kit was weak, as was combat support. They deserve much better than they get during, and after their service.
I would say this is very true. We are not even able to stop flimsy rubber boats invading our shores? so how could we possibly stand up against a hardened enemy force of tanks and troops?
There wont be many tanks in the 2nd Pacific War, that's why the US marines have got rid of most of theirs in favour of smaller more nimble arnoured vehicles.
A lot of boys now don’t even know if there a man or a woman never mind learning to fight. It’s a disgrace they went to take masculinity away from us men
How many Ghost soldiers are on the payroll list? of those 72K Only 40K are living, 30K are able, 10K are combat ready, (5K are infantry and 5K are officers with all invented ranks)
If we lost around 500 men and a dozen tanks every day (which seems a reasonable assumption) the army would be gutted and retreating after a month! Assuming we even had the ammunition to fight a full on battle for that long.
At a rate of 500 a day, it wouldn't last a week. Let's also not forget the numbers of less capable soldiers that are actively recruited to meet quotas. How will they react when it becomes all too real?
@@alistairhackney what is one of those people? im just saying our land the uk should be for the british people not a foreign country --- a foreign country taking over the lands is a coup! and this is what has happened! as the country rns for the people or it should ideally
You mean like the Ghurkhas? Men who have done more for this country by the time they've had breakfast than you would ever do in your entire miserable life.
"AINT GONNA FIGHT FOR THIS COUNTRY" But you'd want the people you despise to go and fight for it on your behalf? DEI ? What do you mean? Ethnic minorities and women? That would only show they have far, far, far more worth than you.
We're literally a sitting duck at this point in time, we've set ourselves on the back foot. The sustained depletion of forces and pc 'pussification' of society is effectively complete. Even a relatively small scale coordinated conventional attack against the British Isles, against radar sites, communications, energy, bridges, food supply etc would wreak MAJOR havoc and we simply won't have an effective answer. Tell me I'm wrong
And who's attacking? By you logic everyone's gone "woke" even look at Russia they lost huge numbers of intelligence people who would be drafted as they don't want to fight an unjust war. Those that have been brought into fight are just cannon fodder for professional soldiers. So maybe the war is online then, in which case we have more worriers than most.
We have been put back to the beginning of the second world war when the British Expeditionary Force were defeated and had to be withdrawn at Dunkirk. Why don't politicians learn ?
Because people don’t know their history. If they did they would understand why Russia is doing this and why they will pay any price needed to ensure victory.
Six months hes having laugh. Isnt he meant tobe the expert? The British Army wouldn't last two months. Amateur war buff but I know I am right. 6 months is a joke.
I’m sure it’s as bad, or worse, in the U.K. as it is in the U.S. today. We’ve had at least 50 years of male effeminization via social and media conduits. Western governments have spent at least as much time working to show their disdain and contempt for males of European descent. Yes, you can change laws and develop terribly punitive consequences for those who will not fight for you. Maybe you get your armies. But what will those armies function like? The Rus’ and their meat waves? All I’m saying is the west is in a major pickle right now. Just look at the recruitment stats for the U.S. military over the last decade. The pop is spent after a 20+ year loss on a foreign war that was really just trying to give them woman and gender rights. The pop has no cohesiveness like we had 1940. We now have the proverbial Tower of Babel.
The "Peace" dividened does not last forever , a Roman once said if you want peace prepare for war , stop giving stuff away we will need the damn stuff ???
Back in the day, I as a soldier in the Parachute regiment, attached to a unit with a specific job to do in the event the Soviets invaded West Germany, was told in such an event we would have at max a ten day life expectancy. We were also told to make sure that we didn't fall into Soviet hands under any circumstances. The war in Ukraine has bought this last advice into very sharp focus. :( As for the army now, it simply does not have enough mass or heavy equipment to fight a Russian army fighting in the way they are fighting in Ukraine. We don't have anywhere near enough air defence, artillery (tube and rocket), I could go on. This is why it is in the UK's interest to stop Russia in Ukraine by helping the Ukranians with equipment, ammunition etc.
It's in the best interest for the war to stop now. Not to keep arming a war that's been a stalemate for over a year. Neither side can win now. Both are losing the same attrition rates except the West Media only covers Russian losses. The war is mute. NATO and the USA caused it too.
@@creech847 Because a section of the population grows up playing with plastic soldiers, comic books and living past wars in their heads. It makes them incapable of properly assessing contemporary events and the mushy reality of their leaders decision-making. You can see this in the BBC - they run out the talking points of WW2 and try to make them fit current circumstances ... they literally have no idea and no point of reference other than a History Book.
@@heycidskyja4668 LOL those are American figures. neither side publishes casualty figures and anyone who has ever read a vietnam history book knows just how "real" american enemy casualty figures are.
It's about time to hand out uniforms to every refugee and turn them to soldiers of the UK. after all this was the plan. When was the last time the UK had a head count parade of army? Let them be visible and show to us that those 72K exist.
I think General David is right, only because it’s hard not to conclude the US has given the Ukrainians enough to survive and degrade the Russians, but not enough to win. That’s a choice, not of timidity but of strategy.
um...You know WW2 was nearly a hundred years ago right? Nobody from that generation is kicking about anymore, So I don't know who you think you're talking about.
Dumbest comment ever. Nobody pays a penny "into NATO". For that matter, the USA has vastly reduced its European defence spending to the point that they are delinquent in their NATO obligations. The US military is too thinly spread on the ground.
News flash (not really but come on): The 2% GDP spending is a suggestion, not a mandatory requirement. And currently only countries spending less than 2 % is Croatia, Spain, Portugal. Italy, Luxenburg, Belgium, Slovenia and Canada.
How to say I don’t know what the EU is without saying so. NATO membership and EU membership are completely separate thing and the EU is not in NATO. There are European countries that are in in NATO but not in the EU, ie the UK, Turkey, Norway and there are EU Members that are not in NATO, ie Austria and until Putin started acting up in Ukraine, Finland and Sweden were in EU but not NATO.
Someone should tell France and Germany that it's not 0.3%, but 3%. Why should Brits die so they can get their country back after being invaded. Lazy blighters!
He is so generous. Depends on war with whom? If war with some real power i doubt British army can survive for 6 days . I mean war with country like Russia.
Six months! Get over yourselves lefties: ammo for two days (max), fuel for four days of modern kinetic warfare (max). Six weeks and the regulars are gone. In that time the Navy would maybe have avoided charted rocks off Australia, charted islands off Samoa, and found their way down The Solent. Air Force? What, a handful of planes (working) and a few pilots (those DIE-ticks will be so good, arf arf). Then: RARO and TA Saturdays and Sundays - two weeks tops. Then: conscription! Good luck trying that little two-tier!
Also the NHS wouldn't be able to cope with the huge casualties, plus whose going to go & fight for a country where them at the very top don't care for the peasants?!?!?!?
But the other day an army representative said they would be ready to fight tomorrow...whats the point if you cant fill a premium league football stadium
So if Russia is losing 1500 a day, imagine Ukraine losses as Russia has 10-14 times more artillery, missiles and 1500 glide bombs a month dropping on them.
You don’t agree NATO AUKUS attempting to start hostilities ?? Stop supply of lethal weapons to Ukraine Now and what will happen tomorrow ??? Peace ☮️ Yeah . Andrej Kondisenko Cairns Australia 🇦🇺
For goodness sake, it wouldn't take the Russians 6 months, it'd be 6 weeks! The Brits keep taking themselves too seriously, thinks too highly of their capability, even mighty US have to think twice before engaging Russia in a hot war. Russia is in it for the long term, they already had 2 years of real training in UKR!!!
Six months is extremely optimistic in the event of a war say over Ukraine. We would lose an infantry battalion a week at the very least. A reservist that’s been out ten years will be in no condition to fight for at least 6 months if at all. Our military is a quarter the size it needs to be to actually fight a peer enemy. Also our logistics and equipment cannot sustain our land forces in an Eastern Europe winter.
Sooner, the British Army of August 1914 suffered 100% casualties by December. They were recalling former servicemen who hadn't worn a uniform in years and sending them to the front with no training.
You would need to change the syllabus in schools and make army service compulsory Kind of like what they used to do work experience in yr 9 But I don't believe in every fight Britain does. It's done more harm then good
We work as part of a global force and our elite services are respected our navy is pretty good and we spend 40 billion plus per year I’m optimistic but we used to spend over five per cent we obviously have our gloves still on and tied together
All am saying for the size of us that is still impressive, I firmly believe training and pure British war skills would help more than we are get justification for
fighting a war has changed . making the same mistakes as were made in WW1 will decimate any army.Its all about cheaply made drones and a highly flexable but well trained soldier , not billions spent on one weapon.
Prior to 2000 the Royal Navy had over 60 combat surface vessels, today we have what 12? Two of thise are Aircraft carriers with zero support combat vessels. The Government is guilty of hubris and living on the reputation of the past. Six months is a massive over estimate for our armies survival rate, we have cut corners in all areas the same as with the NHS and all of our utility services - apply the state of the NHS to the armed forces and you will get some idea of how badly prepared we are today.
What war? how will it develop? Where will it take place? how will they be deployed? UK had very limited forces at beginning of WW2 we managed with that one. However as they are mentioning the UK had a very large reserve list at the time.
I am not British myself, but I am sure if Britain is attacked ninety nine percent (and older) of the x military personnel will come forward and sign up for active service, hack, as a Dutchman I would go and help GB, as I am from Arnhem.
I completely agree with this. The Russia / Ukraine war shows that in a modern war all 70,000 UK combat troops would end up injured or dead in under six months. Those troops would need to be rotated as well. It takes time to train decent combat troops. We don't want to end up like Russia with all our elite / veteran troops dead or injured and just throwing green recruits into battle.
I thought that the idea was always that the Army held untill the called up joined them, its surely true that in both world wars it was the civillian army that ended it, the peacetime army could not hope to fight such a war.
By my rough calculations, that leaves the British Army surviving 60 times longer than Ukraine (Russian projection) or 7.5 times longer than Ukraine (averaged Western expert projections).
life in the UK is a massive grind, everything is expensive, we struggle all year to (if we are lucky) buy 10 days in the sun. what would we be defending?
@bharathprasad4589 russia has no answer to Western Fighter Aircraft. A 5th Generation Airforce is something the russians could only dream of. Gotta love it kid. 👏🇺🇦💪😁
The UK would act as part of NATO. Within the 6 months to 1 year we would have trained a substantial number of recruits to phase 1 infantry standard, churning out combat ready soldiers every 14 weeks. The 20000 that have left in the last 5 years would be recalled and retrained within 2 months. The volunteer reserve forces of 30000 would be deployed, and those veterans with a reserve commitment would be rejoining and receiving training to bolster losses. In total we're talking of a British Army trained to a far superior standard and lead by far better NCOs and commanders than the Russian army numbering some 170k to 200k. The RAF and RN would also be growing along with the forces of other NATO countries to number millions.
Why would a force barely one tenth of the size of the BEF we sent to France in 1940 last for six months, when the 1940 BEF was totally routed within six weeks? Dont underestimate China.
B/S War is now an electronic battlefield with less reliance on mass ground conflicts as in WWI & 2 it was predicted 20 +years ago that technology would be the future of warfare
What Technology brother ? Its even harder to attack other territories because of sophisticated defence system. Men and Drones are the most necessary ones in this modern warfare age
As there is no way to provide strategic deployment let alone logistics.. the army would survive simply because it could not even get there let alone be destroyed..
Great Britain is worried it could last only six months in a war with Russia, which is why it must rely on its NATO allies. Meanwhile, Ukraine is actively asking to join NATO, demonstrating unparalleled commitment, yet the U.S. is denying it. What would you call that?
Someone with a vested interest will have persuaded ministers that technology would win the day, anyone who has seen the footage of the last couple of years in Ukraine will have better understanding.
Six months, assumes there wouldn't be massive conscription and weapons transfers from the allies. If Britton goes to war for real, you won't get away with sipping tea in a café while watching it on TV.
this also was the case at the beginning of WW1 - Solution: CONSCRIPTION "...The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants" - Thomas Jefferson, 1787
There is a 8:1 russian:Ukrainian KIA rate. Any western force would have far fewer casualties, especially deaths, than a russia who do not care at all. Same with China, the acceptance of soldier deaths is on a different level than in the west.
Six months!
It's a 1 shot wonder now.
Enough gear for a few days.
It's treason that has caused this.
70 main battle tanks - would last two weeks..
@@geofflewis8599 Three days max., Sir. British forces have near-zero real tank experience. Remember 3RTR landing at St Omer? Within 24 hours, all bar three of their tanks were either broken (mechanical failure) or destroyed).
But the treasonous hold all the power
@@Charlie-o1r4p have you ever just sat back and listened to the sound a Rotorsaucer makes when you are booting up and performing safety checks? Have you ever also wondered if the global Public will get to experience them in this lifetime ?
6 months really?
How long has Ukraine held out for now, and they don’t have British forces training or resources..another ploy to angle for more MoD funding from the taxpayers
Why would the backbone of our armed forces, British working class lads, bother fighting these days?
Doubt anyone would bother a country without borders isn't a country
Knowing this country while your off fighting they would move a migrant family into your council house
The enemy is and still is brought ashore here, by westminster.
Andrew and Michael would be fighting Ivan and probably dying to keep Ahmed and Mohammad in their local hotel - nothing worth fighting for!
@charlesburgoyne-probyn6044 Maybe try fighting back on home soil MIGHT make the difference between 100% cowardice and being a man and possibly regaining your homeland. But then, that would mean being brave, having to do something difficult and dangerous, and having a backbone instead of watching invaders kick a bag of wind around a patch of grass or hiding away while invaders destroy your women and children?
It’s far worse than that. Of the 72,000 only about 30% of those are combat troops, the remaining are logistics and support That gives you a fighting force of 20,000.
The standard is poor compared to what it was as well
@@billyhalliday9811 Sounds like we have lost before we have started 😂
That's a stretch. Wouldn't even call it a defence force let alone a fighting farce
The first day on the Somme.... 20,000 dead, 40,000 wounded...... Figure those numbers....
@@Addad66 Depends if the populace would gladly be conscripted in war
iam a vet of 15years royal engineers 70s and 80s talked to lads who have served in Afghanistan they said they always short of small arms ammo and had to ask Americans to give them some
As a nation of dog lovers, our vets are highly respected.
I was with US 75th RR. Met many UK troops, good soldiering skills. But I got to tell you, the kit was weak, as was combat support. They deserve much better than they get during, and after their service.
REspect
They called us the borrowers lol
This country can't even control it's Borders.
It can. Kier Starmer has stated it was a deliberate experiment run by the last government. It's a choice.
obviously when there are fresh off the boat 🤣😂
@@clementihammock7572 Division bots or just hateful dyslexics?
Politicians should stand at the front line.
royals & lords too,
I would say this is very true. We are not even able to stop flimsy rubber boats invading our shores? so how could we possibly stand up against a hardened enemy force of tanks and troops?
There wont be many tanks in the 2nd Pacific War, that's why the US marines have got rid of most of theirs in favour of smaller more nimble arnoured vehicles.
It's not an invasion. Not even close. A Home Office immigration matter. Not the MoD's problem. The military have more serious things to worry about.
A resource of personnel for us or against us in any future war? Very unsure.
@@daveg9341well that's the 8 million pound a day question..
We swapped 2 years of National Service for 3 years of University. We're all keyboard warriors now!
lol
anti-intellectualism isn't the answer.
A lot of boys now don’t even know if there a man or a woman never mind learning to fight. It’s a disgrace they went to take masculinity away from us men
How many Ghost soldiers are on the payroll list? of those 72K Only 40K are living, 30K are able, 10K are combat ready, (5K are infantry and 5K are officers with all invented ranks)
😁 SAS and SBS will be logitech mouse?
If we lost around 500 men and a dozen tanks every day (which seems a reasonable assumption) the army would be gutted and retreating after a month! Assuming we even had the ammunition to fight a full on battle for that long.
But do tbe Russians ? They seem to be struggling to beat the Ukranians
The British army never retreats - it tactically withdrawal's.
At a rate of 500 a day, it wouldn't last a week.
Let's also not forget the numbers of less capable soldiers that are actively recruited to meet quotas. How will they react when it becomes all too real?
Who are we fighting?
Because anyone except the US and China we'd be in the same situation as them so it would be very much light skirmishes.
Blame the regime in No. 10
uk died 20 years ago ! we serve israel! so we need to fight for our own land before claiming to be uk
@LolaSmith-ow6ie ah, you're one of those people...
ah, you're one of those people...
@@jcal258 ermm, what? A person with a valid point, yes i am
@@alistairhackney what is one of those people? im just saying our land the uk should be for the british people not a foreign country --- a foreign country taking over the lands is a coup! and this is what has happened! as the country rns for the people or it should ideally
We're fine, we have huge reserves of woke nationalists to support us..this country has never been safer.
The object of WOKE is not to harm anyone, sounds all right to me.
That won't help when they enemy is not 'woke'
@@frankjaeger9068 Exactly.
@@creech847 Tell that to your family when the enemy is kicking in your door.
@@creech847It won’t be much use when an opposing soldier had an AK47 targeted at you. Your Call of Duty score won’t be admissible…
But we will win the most diverse army and I'm constantly told that's more important.
Those Trans Troops are truly terrifying
@@brianlopez8855I can only cringe at what would happen when told to be on parade in full battle dress.
Camo'd Lilly Savage😂
@@brianlopez8855Remember the first foot and mouth
This isn't a culture war issue simpletons.
6 months is overstimation, 6 weeks is max.
True
WE AINT GONNA FIGHT FOR THIS COUNTRY...CALL UP ALL THE DEI
You mean like the Ghurkhas? Men who have done more for this country by the time they've had breakfast than you would ever do in your entire miserable life.
uk died 20 years ago -- we serve iisrael -- so we need to get our own lands back first
@@LolaSmith-ow6ie🙄
"AINT GONNA FIGHT FOR THIS COUNTRY"
But you'd want the people you despise to go and fight for it on your behalf?
DEI ? What do you mean? Ethnic minorities and women?
That would only show they have far, far, far more worth than you.
Tosh!
We're literally a sitting duck at this point in time, we've set ourselves on the back foot. The sustained depletion of forces and pc 'pussification' of society is effectively complete. Even a relatively small scale coordinated conventional attack against the British Isles, against radar sites, communications, energy, bridges, food supply etc would wreak MAJOR havoc and we simply won't have an effective answer. Tell me I'm wrong
Thanks, well said
And who's attacking?
By you logic everyone's gone "woke" even look at Russia they lost huge numbers of intelligence people who would be drafted as they don't want to fight an unjust war.
Those that have been brought into fight are just cannon fodder for professional soldiers.
So maybe the war is online then, in which case we have more worriers than most.
We have been put back to the beginning of the second world war when the British Expeditionary Force were defeated and had to be withdrawn at Dunkirk.
Why don't politicians learn ?
War with, who, we are surrounded by allies.
The threat to Britain, is air and sea not land.
Because people don’t know their history. If they did they would understand why Russia is doing this and why they will pay any price needed to ensure victory.
Because they're much more interested in making electorally useful and paltry tax cuts and pursuing voter-friendly white elephants.
That's very important. UK politicians still dream of the 19 th century great empire. They forget they lost to goat herders in Afghanistan in Aug 2021
That dude is extremely optimistic, give it 6 hours.
Six months hes having laugh. Isnt he meant tobe the expert? The British Army wouldn't last two months. Amateur war buff but I know I am right. 6 months is a joke.
How long did you predict for Ukraine?
It’s gonna be real hard to get your English males to fight for you.
No..in war refusal should carry a military capital sentence
@@nigelsmith2044 Hmmm... when was that last the case? 17thC perhaps?
Under a new model.of mobilisation it can be re introduced
@@nigelsmith2044OK get over their
I’m sure it’s as bad, or worse, in the U.K. as it is in the U.S. today. We’ve had at least 50 years of male effeminization via social and media conduits. Western governments have spent at least as much time working to show their disdain and contempt for males of European descent.
Yes, you can change laws and develop terribly punitive consequences for those who will not fight for you. Maybe you get your armies. But what will those armies function like? The Rus’ and their meat waves?
All I’m saying is the west is in a major pickle right now. Just look at the recruitment stats for the U.S. military over the last decade. The pop is spent after a 20+ year loss on a foreign war that was really just trying to give them woman and gender rights. The pop has no cohesiveness like we had 1940. We now have the proverbial Tower of Babel.
This Labour gov can fight their own wars I wouldn’t give my life for this country I have seen the way others who gave their lives are disrespected .
The "Peace" dividened does not last forever , a Roman once said if you want peace prepare for war , stop giving stuff away we will need the damn stuff ???
Stop giving it away? They're fighting the war so you don't have to.
Back in the day, I as a soldier in the Parachute regiment, attached to a unit with a specific job to do in the event the Soviets invaded West Germany, was told in such an event we would have at max a ten day life expectancy.
We were also told to make sure that we didn't fall into Soviet hands under any circumstances.
The war in Ukraine has bought this last advice into very sharp focus. :(
As for the army now, it simply does not have enough mass or heavy equipment to fight a Russian army fighting in the way they are fighting in Ukraine. We don't have anywhere near enough air defence, artillery (tube and rocket), I could go on.
This is why it is in the UK's interest to stop Russia in Ukraine by helping the Ukranians with equipment, ammunition etc.
It's in the best interest for the war to stop now. Not to keep arming a war that's been a stalemate for over a year. Neither side can win now. Both are losing the same attrition rates except the West Media only covers Russian losses. The war is mute. NATO and the USA caused it too.
About a thousand people are dying or seriously injured a week, why would you want more?
@@creech847 Because a section of the population grows up playing with plastic soldiers, comic books and living past wars in their heads. It makes them incapable of properly assessing contemporary events and the mushy reality of their leaders decision-making. You can see this in the BBC - they run out the talking points of WW2 and try to make them fit current circumstances ... they literally have no idea and no point of reference other than a History Book.
Please provide the first four digits of your service number and the year you served?
@@user-ic5cc8um4s Why should I. :)
1500 russians a day?
British propaganda is so much over inflated.
It's actually over 2000 a day now.
@@heycidskyja4668 Ukrops yeah, soon to be a lot of Ukie 18+ year olds once Blinken gets his way
@@heycidskyja4668 Where is the evidence of this?
@@heycidskyja4668 who's your source?
@@heycidskyja4668 LOL those are American figures. neither side publishes casualty figures and anyone who has ever read a vietnam history book knows just how "real" american enemy casualty figures are.
But 77th Brigade will put down their keyboards and fight? Right? Right?
What's the preoccupation with the 77th brigade?
@@heycidskyja4668 They're the best this country can offer. Like super ninjas.
Are you lot not exposing how the British would be reaching for the nuclear button far quicker than Russia.
I suspect those who have an interest in that will have worked this out already....
Awful lot of people here keen to volunteer up someone elses kid to go and fight their war for them...
Well 120 operational tanks, 24 attack helicopters...and plenty fish and chips 😂
Well let’s not get involved in any more wars then.
That seems like a very sensible suggestion
that's very naive
@@Ciarananthonymitchell844😂 he was being sarcastic.
@@seanmclean3028 I fail to see the flaw in her/his argument.
It's about time to hand out uniforms to every refugee and turn them to soldiers of the UK. after all this was the plan. When was the last time the UK had a head count parade of army? Let them be visible and show to us that those 72K exist.
@@mlikely72apart from the fact that we are a part of NATO and the fact that Putin is a direct threat to us, apart from that no problem
I think General David is right, only because it’s hard not to conclude the US has given the Ukrainians enough to survive and degrade the Russians, but not enough to win. That’s a choice, not of timidity but of strategy.
If true - it’s evil - and it’s been the policy of the Biden Administration
anyone who thinks any veteran would fight for them is deluded. many have cast medals away, many won't fight against their ally from ww2.
um...You know WW2 was nearly a hundred years ago right?
Nobody from that generation is kicking about anymore, So I don't know who you think you're talking about.
uk died 20 years ago ! we serve israel! so we need to fight for our own land before claiming to be uk
Plus...how many politicians have even STEPPED on a parade square...let alone SERVED "their" country....??
We have never in our history had a large Army ! Navy and Air Forces are the most important for an island nation !
Russia saved GB from Napoleon and Adolf 😅😅😅
We’re not fighting for a this country anymore are u mad 😂 how many men passed away in ww2 ? And for what? Look at the state of the place now
Politically the UK is heading for Military Inadequacy - WHO KNEW - Politicians are ASLEEP, ASLEEP, ASLEEP 😢😢😢😢😢
All the Integrity initiative journalists are welcomed to fight on the front line on my behalf. Good luck!
Less than 20 thousand infantry 😮
No way would they last 6 months.
EU has not been paying their Fair share into NATO
Dumbest comment ever. Nobody pays a penny "into NATO". For that matter, the USA has vastly reduced its European defence spending to the point that they are delinquent in their NATO obligations. The US military is too thinly spread on the ground.
News flash (not really but come on): The 2% GDP spending is a suggestion, not a mandatory requirement. And currently only countries spending less than 2 % is Croatia, Spain, Portugal. Italy, Luxenburg, Belgium, Slovenia and Canada.
How to say I don’t know what the EU is without saying so. NATO membership and EU membership are completely separate thing and the EU is not in NATO. There are European countries that are in in NATO but not in the EU, ie the UK, Turkey, Norway and there are EU Members that are not in NATO, ie Austria and until Putin started acting up in Ukraine, Finland and Sweden were in EU but not NATO.
Shut up you Trump melt! 😂You’ve no idea
Someone should tell France and Germany that it's not 0.3%, but 3%. Why should Brits die so they can get their country back after being invaded. Lazy blighters!
We Argentines are taking note from the corner😂🇦🇷🇫🇰
Don't worry - we still have Girl Guides to send
He is so generous. Depends on war with whom?
If war with some real power i doubt British army can survive for 6 days . I mean war with country like Russia.
The UK can still whip Russia easily.
uk died 20 years ago ! we serve israel! so we need to fight for our own land before claiming to be uk
@@DomLab-g2nLol, with what? Hope that's a joke because it takes great deal of delusion to believe that
Don't worry Hamsa, you won't be required to join.
@@OnyedikaGabriel-un3gm Russia can't handle Ukraine.
2 weeks, according to NATO chief of staff
Just 2 more weeks ?
The British army was pretty much done post the first battle of the Marne. By mid 1915 about 80% of The BEF were either wounded or dead.
Don't expect the yanks to help you this time you've been too rude about them over the years
Six months! Get over yourselves lefties: ammo for two days (max), fuel for four days of modern kinetic warfare (max). Six weeks and the regulars are gone. In that time the Navy would maybe have avoided charted rocks off Australia, charted islands off Samoa, and found their way down The Solent. Air Force? What, a handful of planes (working) and a few pilots (those DIE-ticks will be so good, arf arf).
Then: RARO and TA Saturdays and Sundays - two weeks tops.
Then: conscription! Good luck trying that little two-tier!
Devastating.
Also the NHS wouldn't be able to cope with the huge casualties, plus whose going to go & fight for a country where them at the very top don't care for the peasants?!?!?!?
British army is severely deteoriated, UK just doesn't know it. Ships, arms, aircraft, personnel is short supply.
But the other day an army representative said they would be ready to fight tomorrow...whats the point if you cant fill a premium league football stadium
So if Russia is losing 1500 a day, imagine Ukraine losses as Russia has 10-14 times more artillery, missiles and 1500 glide bombs a month dropping on them.
Ukraine are losing atleast 10 times less. They are a professional army after all.
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No Ivan Ukraine is defending, anyone with a brain knows that attackers lose more men against dug in defensive positions.
@thegoat11111 Ukraine is running away in most cases they've captured no territory in the Donbass all year.
@ailinofaolin8897 They're inside russia now. 🔥
The rainbow 🌈 army wouldn't last a month if they cant stop boats entering england
6 minutes more like.most of the air bases have been closed for a start...
6 minutes? Don't stand near me then when it all kicks off!
Back in the 80s they used to say 11 sticks per bullet, and that was before computers
Fine. Let's raise taxes to fund the army and the NHS. Let's see how well that goes down.
Don't forget Net Zero. Can't fight wars without Net Zero.
I can make £5.5 billion of savings to put into our armed forces immediately.
That long?? Are you kidding??! 2 weeks at most, Russia is not our enemy, wake up people nato are trying to start ww3
traitor, you and rest need to leave
Ivan your posts are all over TH-cam 😂😂😂🤡🤡🤡
You don’t agree NATO AUKUS attempting to start hostilities ?? Stop supply of lethal weapons to Ukraine Now and what will happen tomorrow ??? Peace ☮️ Yeah . Andrej Kondisenko Cairns Australia 🇦🇺
Meanwhile Russia increases its Military to 1.5 million 😂. Who do you think you are kidding Mr Starmer 😂
They cant win in Ukraine, they dont have the resources, the GDP to go through Europe to get to the UK
We don't produce anything any more so that's the way the army is going down, down, we could loose everthing.😢😢😢😢
For goodness sake, it wouldn't take the Russians 6 months, it'd be 6 weeks!
The Brits keep taking themselves too seriously, thinks too highly of their capability, even mighty US have to think twice before engaging Russia in a hot war. Russia is in it for the long term, they already had 2 years of real training in UKR!!!
Six months is extremely optimistic in the event of a war say over Ukraine. We would lose an infantry battalion a week at the very least.
A reservist that’s been out ten years will be in no condition to fight for at least 6 months if at all.
Our military is a quarter the size it needs to be to actually fight a peer enemy.
Also our logistics and equipment cannot sustain our land forces in an Eastern Europe winter.
Sooner, the British Army of August 1914 suffered 100% casualties by December. They were recalling former servicemen who hadn't worn a uniform in years and sending them to the front with no training.
You would need to change the syllabus in schools and make army service compulsory
Kind of like what they used to do work experience in yr 9
But I don't believe in every fight Britain does. It's done more harm then good
We work as part of a global force and our elite services are respected our navy is pretty good and we spend 40 billion plus per year I’m optimistic but we used to spend over five per cent we obviously have our gloves still on and tied together
The whole point fo the British army was to last long enough for civilians to be trained into soldiers. You think WW1 or 2 was any different?
Civilians won't willingly go to their deaths this time
All am saying for the size of us that is still impressive, I firmly believe training and pure British war skills would help more than we are get justification for
6 hours more like it
fighting a war has changed . making the same mistakes as were made in WW1 will decimate any army.Its all about cheaply made drones and a highly flexable but well trained soldier , not billions spent on one weapon.
Prior to 2000 the Royal Navy had over 60 combat surface vessels, today we have what 12? Two of thise are Aircraft carriers with zero support combat vessels. The Government is guilty of hubris and living on the reputation of the past. Six months is a massive over estimate for our armies survival rate, we have cut corners in all areas the same as with the NHS and all of our utility services - apply the state of the NHS to the armed forces and you will get some idea of how badly prepared we are today.
6 weeks much more accurate
The British Army has always been wiped out in all the world wars, still nobody has invaded since 1066. i think your good.
Oh, like in Dunkirk, you mean?
During the world wars, the bulk of the UK's fighting force were Indian conscripts. Why would it be any different now?
What war? how will it develop? Where will it take place? how will they be deployed? UK had very limited forces at beginning of WW2 we managed with that one. However as they are mentioning the UK had a very large reserve list at the time.
I am not British myself, but I am sure if Britain is attacked ninety nine percent (and older) of the x military personnel will come forward and sign up for active service, hack, as a Dutchman I would go and help GB, as I am from Arnhem.
I completely agree with this. The Russia / Ukraine war shows that in a modern war all 70,000 UK combat troops would end up injured or dead in under six months. Those troops would need to be rotated as well. It takes time to train decent combat troops. We don't want to end up like Russia with all our elite / veteran troops dead or injured and just throwing green recruits into battle.
I thought that the idea was always that the Army held untill the called up joined them, its surely true that in both world wars it was the civillian army that ended it, the peacetime army could not hope to fight such a war.
I don't think I would fight for this government
Six months? More like six days 😂
No it's 6 weeks
By my rough calculations, that leaves the British Army surviving 60 times longer than Ukraine (Russian projection) or 7.5 times longer than Ukraine (averaged Western expert projections).
Ooh, freak us all out. Fear!!!!😢
life in the UK is a massive grind, everything is expensive, we struggle all year to (if we are lucky) buy 10 days in the sun. what would we be defending?
What makes him think they would last long!
Few weeks more like it...
The Brits have a 5th Generation Airforce. A No Fly Zone and close air support means no russians.
And Russians have the best air defence network in the world. They can lock on to F-35s.
@bharathprasad4589 The Israelis have proven that the S400 is made redundant to 5th Generation Aircraft. Thanks for coming kid. 🍦🤡😂
@bharathprasad4589 russia has no answer to Western Fighter Aircraft. A 5th Generation Airforce is something the russians could only dream of. Gotta love it kid. 👏🇺🇦💪😁
Russians haven't tasted the A10 yet, they won't like that one bit! Those that survive!
😂😂😂😂 F117 jets are smiling 🤓
Raise pay incentive for veterans make it difficult to deny service, "an army marches on its stomach." Napoleon Bonaparte
Government wanted to cut the numbers in the army, Im ex army and if I get called back I would.
Let’s be honest, we wouldn’t last 6 days. We’ve got no army.
It's not peasants in flipflops this time.
The UK would act as part of NATO. Within the 6 months to 1 year we would have trained a substantial number of recruits to phase 1 infantry standard, churning out combat ready soldiers every 14 weeks. The 20000 that have left in the last 5 years would be recalled and retrained within 2 months.
The volunteer reserve forces of 30000 would be deployed, and those veterans with a reserve commitment would be rejoining and receiving training to bolster losses.
In total we're talking of a British Army trained to a far superior standard and lead by far better NCOs and commanders than the Russian army numbering some 170k to 200k.
The RAF and RN would also be growing along with the forces of other NATO countries to number millions.
Why would a force barely one tenth of the size of the BEF we sent to France in 1940 last for six months, when the 1940 BEF was totally routed within six weeks? Dont underestimate China.
B/S War is now an electronic battlefield with less reliance on mass ground conflicts as in WWI & 2 it was predicted 20 +years ago that technology would be the future of warfare
What Technology brother ? Its even harder to attack other territories because of sophisticated defence system. Men and Drones are the most necessary ones in this modern warfare age
Are there not large numbers of casualties in Ukraine?
Always enjoy your segments.
As there is no way to provide strategic deployment let alone logistics.. the army would survive simply because it could not even get there let alone be destroyed..
The smallest British Army in history totally destroyed by government incompetence
Great Britain is worried it could last only six months in a war with Russia, which is why it must rely on its NATO allies. Meanwhile, Ukraine is actively asking to join NATO, demonstrating unparalleled commitment, yet the U.S. is denying it. What would you call that?
A very real assessment.
It basically was in 1939.
That's why WW2 was overwhelming fought by a civilian conscript military.
Rule 1 on page 1 in the book of war. Do not march on Moscow. Bernard Montgomery
6 months is widely optimistic I think
Someone with a vested interest will have persuaded ministers that technology would win the day, anyone who has seen the footage of the last couple of years in Ukraine will have better understanding.
Six months, assumes there wouldn't be massive conscription and weapons transfers from the allies.
If Britton goes to war for real, you won't get away with sipping tea in a café while watching it on TV.
this also was the case at the beginning of WW1 - Solution: CONSCRIPTION
"...The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants"
- Thomas Jefferson, 1787
I would not fight for this country
There is a 8:1 russian:Ukrainian KIA rate. Any western force would have far fewer casualties, especially deaths, than a russia who do not care at all. Same with China, the acceptance of soldier deaths is on a different level than in the west.