Check out the article from the Daily Mail...but as always a few tidbits...
The date is July 27, 2012, and in London the Olympic Games are about to begin. For months, the British people have been looking forward to the jamboree of patriotic enthusiasm.
But now that the day is here, the mood feels heavy with gloom. The crowds are thin, the drizzle pours down. The Union Flags hang forlornly in the dull breeze.
Even the nation's new Prime Minister, the blinking, stammering Ed Miliband, cuts a remarkably limp figure, a melancholy leader for a nation sunk in misery....
...Under the terms of the Strategic Defence and Security Review, the government had committed itself to scrapping the Harrier Jump Jets and decommissioning the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal, effectively hobbling its capacity to strike back against an Argentine invasion.Read the entire article...those are only two passages...but also read the comments section over at Think Defence.
In October 2010, Admiral Sir Sandy Woodward, the architect of victory in the South Atlantic in 1982, warned that a surprise attack would be 'highly likely to succeed'.
Thanks to the swingeing cuts, he insisted, the Argentines could take the islands 'with barely a shot being fired'.
But to their eternal shame, the Coalition ignored his warnings. And they even ignored an even more aggressive bout of sabre-rattling from Mrs Kirchner, who declared the following summer that Britain was merely a 'crude colonial power in decline'.
All this, however, was merely a taste of what was to come...
I continue to be amazed at the arrogance of opinion by some of the commenters. The idea that they could be under threat of having their islands attacked seems almost foreign to them. They deride the Argentinian military and have a vision of the Royal Navy from the '80's.
They ignore the draconian cuts forced on the Navy by the Royal Air Force and British Army. They still believe that they're a world power even though they're only willing to fund a Navy at the rate of a 1st rate Coast Guard.
Trouble is coming and those that are warning of the danger are being ignored and belittled. Neville Chamberlain would be proud.
