Britain is unprepared for war at any scale and cannot defend itself, warns former UK Army chief
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- čas přidán 2. 07. 2024
- A new report from a defence insider claims that Britain is not ready to go to war, due to a severe lack of resources and manpower.
With World War Three looking ever more likely, many fear Britain is woefully unprepared to defend itself.
Watch Jerome Starkey and General Lord Richard Dannatt discuss Britain's defence capabilities in this week's World at War.
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Stop paying to keep illegal immigrants and put the money into defence………..
lol you really think thats where money is going? XD
thats not their plan. you dont get it still....
Sure… that’s the problem, not Tories stealing government money and funneling it to their rich donors, through things like PPE contracts, it’s the cost of installing bunk beds in a building…
@@aliancemd the government are closing homes for the physically and mentally disabled but housing illegal immigrants !
Mind your business 😂
We can't even stop the rubber boats!
Stand for Parliament, win the governmental leadership race, win the election, become PM - Now you're in the position of being able to issue the order to stop them - Now stand back and let those responsible for stopping them get on with doing so. So what order are you going to give, where do you draw the line over what your people tasked with stopping them can do to acheive it? Now be prepared to end up in court having given the only order which will stop them.
We can't stop them because nobody has the balls to do what is necessary to put and end to it. That includes you.
do you think they want to ?
Those boats are making landlords and cutthroat employers rich, why would they stop them?
Operation Sea Dinghy 🤭
That’s because they’ve not even attempted to try and stop them
I resigned my commission last summer with 7 years left to do. The Army is a hollowed out unhappy shell of what it was. Combine that with a country that is less and less my own with large numbers arriving that have a culture that is wholely incompatible with Britsh values, and I feel utterly betrayed. I have a reserve coimmittment but the Government can rod right off. As it happens, General Dannatt is the last soldier's General the Army had. Top bloke and he's spot on.
I am not a Soldier, but i concur with your comments 100% would any of those immigrants fight to protect this Country they have reached ? again 100% no.
become a mercenary or move to the US I'd say to you my friend...
you just aren't a very intelligent person, you're still lost at life
Ex military myself……you are 100% correct sir
Cheers Dits!
If your not prepared to defend it, be prepared to have it taken from you.
The government has done a good job of that already
Britain has long gone,we live in a land where you only require a passport to go on holiday,it's not required to invade this land.
That's good, because if Putin tried to invade Britain he would get about as far as Hitler did, maybe not even that far
It’s mental isn’t it
Only need a rubber dingy pair of Nike air max and new iPhone to invade UK
If you were from the UK but holidaying on the french coast, and fell asleep on a lilo and drifted a couple of hundreds yards out from the beach, the navy wouldn’t pick you up and bring you to Dover would they ? They would take you back to the beach! So why do they bring or escort these boats over to us?
@@chrisgroves6977 no mate your given Nike air max and new iPhone pluss you 5 star hotel and £60 a week pocket money
The UK spent £888 million on foreign aid in 2023. It’s costing the UK £14.4 billion per year on ilegal migration. wtf is wrong with the government? I’m not not English btw.
All that money was sent to Ukraine 😂
@@mistermood4164 the UK have sent 12 billion in total so far. How much would it cost the UK in a full scale war with Russia?
@@Russell7 easy over 100 billion USD
@@Russell7
Много.
Everything and one is an object in the environment to be moved around. Just abstract numbers.
Sad to see this. Britain is not alone in this problem. As a retired Australian Army officer I can tell you we are in exactly the same boat.
Too little funding, losing personnel from the ADF, and dismally failing in recruiting replacements.
Our late General Jim Molan was absolutely spot-on in his analysis of our situation.
Unfortunately Labor governments in my lifetime, have never really supported the ADF.
So please explain how Russians are going to get all the way to Australia to invade? Especially when they can't even defeat a nobody such as Ukraine? Absolutely no one has plans to invade Australia.
Because you don't really need to defend yourself from anyone, the only country near you that would be at all likely to stir up trouble is China and if they were to do that we have a bigger problem on our hands. And that bigger problem still isn't going to attack Australia.
There’s absolutely nothing that is attracting people to want to join. Give them a decent pay and conditions and you will see a quick change. Both countries are so blasé it’s not funny. When something happens it will be too late.
Did 16 years and got out a couple of years ago. The final kicker for me to get out was when at the place I was an instructor at, we were told to not fail female trainees on course.
well said brother uk is like united nations uk has been flooded with so called immigration only men full of hotels in scotland hardly any woman and children send them all bk and slava ukraine
Not the first time the UK was unprepared for war, look back into the interwar years prior to WW2.
Your army was ready, but quickly received a kick from the Germans and fled to the island. Throwing away all weapons. At that moment, you were saved only by the lack of a combat/landing fleet in Germany.
I know, declaring war when Germany had the best army on the planet. How did Germany lose?
@@JustBadlyDo you not read history? You can even watch Mark Felton videos, but there were four major reasons:
(1) the lack of productivity of its war economy
(2) the weak supply lines
(3) the start of a war on two fronts
(4) the lack of strong leadership
The russians are committing the same mistakes as Germany did 75 years ago. Especially #4. Not just putin, but the entire cabal at the highest levels of rus leadership… very weak, will not survive.
Because of US, Hindu. Sihks and Muslims @JustBadly
@@user-it3ve2bl7j Silly comment ? They tried to invade but needed to clear the air but was stopped at the Battle of Britain . If we ran away we would’ve surrendered but we didn’t and carried on the war with our commonwealth brothers. But I’d agree with you that we wasn’t ready and got kicked out of France by a very well modern thinking Germany military. If we’d lost the Battle of Britain then the world would’ve been different?
An American general said this in the last two years, he said we were of no real help if required. The Israelis had 390,000 men and women in TWO WEEKS. It would take us two years to get that amount if we could.
Are we interested in the opinion of an American general?
@@timphillips9954 Yes, they will be needed if we have to go to war like never before.
@@timphillips9954 you should be especially if it is the same as many senior british military such as this former uk former army chief
During the Cold War we had the excellent TV program, "Yes Prime Minister". The PM was shocked to discover that their were more Bureaucrats in government than sailors in the Royal Navy. Things have only gotten worse. BTW, The 2 new carriers are a 100% joke and they should have built one larger nuclear carrier with catapults and arrester gear.
@@jager6863 Spot on, we cannot crew the ships we have we have to wait until a ship comes in, to crew a revamped ship it is dangerous.
Its already being invaded
Immigration is not the same thing and most migrants are generally intercepted and detained anyway.
@@jetster785i assume you are a bit naive on that topic.
Vote reform
@@jetster785 Yes it literally is
@@jetster785If you call detained, bailed to appear then released into accommodation in civvy Street, not a guarded compound where they should be until processed. Of course not being in a place under guard they can just dissappear and joins the hundreds of thousands of illegals already here working and not paying taxes.
If it was just Britain and Russia in a conventional war with no NATO, I think I read Britain has enough artillery for less than week of combat.
Ye, I'm british and it's embarrassing. Countrys like sweeden have a bigger stockpile. We don't have qn industry to produce an equipment 🇬🇧
That's what the Kerembots want you to believe. I live near the UK largest munition factory and it's been running 24 / 7 for the past 2 years. Only 1 in 4 155mm artillery shells go to Ukraine the rest go into long term storage.
@@daveoc5770.No, the British army has said that.
NATO has also said they're behind on artillery manufacturing as a whole.
The upside is that in the same conflict at the start of the Russo-Ukraine War the French had only enough artillery for 2 days. Here's the real kicker though - at the top mortality rates of the War the British Army could only stay in the field for about two weeks!
But everyone said russia was so weak
Most of gen z don't want to even go into the army let alone fight for the uk. Thats one massive issue the uk has apart from nor having the weaponary since you also need manpower
exactly don't forget they were recruiting an admiral for they Nuke subs on Linked IN...
Gen Z soft,disloyal and frankly embarrassing. Who would have thought this country could have produced so many of these feckless individuals?!
So in a case of war,what would UK send as NATO member,the proud bagpipers, to march on the frontline,hoping the russians would get scared by the mighty Britain and run away? So,the british, with Farage,no hope to show up, Americans with Trump,neither, Germans can't even start the tanks engines and have 4 rifles left, neither.....In conclusion the dirty job falls (again,as always) on east europeans. The base is on Poland and Romania,the rest of NATO will show up at the end to hit their chests with the fists and to shout,,victory''....as always.
I wouldn’t blame them. Why should they fight for a country that is collapsing? Give them something worth fight for first.
@@qasimmir7117 What happens to the people when a country collapses?
Weak assed,wet lettuce generation ,smooth brained with no initiative or backbone - pathetic!
Denmark stands with the UK
And we stand with Denmark 🇬🇧🇩🇰👊
The mighty Denmark with a population of 5.8 million.
It’s embarrassing when these little countries talk a big game.
You should be thinking about peace.
@@Gunit-007 You weird for that
@@Gunit-007nothing more embarrassing than calling yourself gunit007 😂
@@Gunit-007 Small nations knows the importance of allies you can count on
Google it - Britain has more generals than tanks
Yes and both would be equally useless , your generals are still the Rees Mogg typ🤣🤣es
Just to make you feel better, The US Navy has more Admirals than ships. Conservative politicians think that the military only needs to be left alone and the Communists think the military is a lab for all their social experiments. Both are wrong.
I googled it, it says Britain has 50 or so generals and 200+ Challengers.
you dont need tanks these days especially if youre budget is so low i would just get drones
@@user-bu9ib7ym8z come say it too there faces id love to see how that would pan out 😂😂😂
One of the best armed forces in the World, destroyed by repeated reductions by flip-flop of Lab -Con governments.
Correction: CONLAB
Correction conservative! 14 years ago we could deploy two expeditionary forces with enough troops to rotate comfortably! We now can't fully support NATO exercises! That's not labours fault that's down to Tory austerity!
Well, no country from the Commonwealth is going to provide, men, munitions, weapons and finance, again. So just how does Britain expect to pay for a war this time without the free carry provided by millions of others?
Britain created the Empire and were the most effective fighting force within it for 400 years
@paulietv2162 you mean we as in all people or only the white people???
@@amberditta All
@@amberditta Who said the word 'we'? Can't you read?
Ok then, dont ask the UK when Zipper heads are on your beaches either then...
We need to learn our lessons.
We will never learn
Before Christmas that's exactly what we are going to do.
Yeah we are well aware. As long as we all go to school and work and conform though all good. 250 bunkers in England anyone know where those bunkers are ….. a lot don’t
The Bunkers weren't and will never be for you.
Thing is, nobody is going to go to war against Britain alone. Britain has PLENTY of time to militarize further…. 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
I simply do not understand why, after ten years or more of being told by various defence chiefs, that the UK cannot defends itself the Government has done sod all to rectify what is essentially a simple problem.
They have not been pushed enough. It will take something bad to happen before we change. Just like in the Napoleonic era, Pre ww1 and pre ww2. History keeps repeating itself.
Because they have been money-grabbing tories for 14 years.
Because the tories want to save money it's as simple as that
It's a shame a country like Britain can't defend themselves. I guess they don't realize in what world we are living today.
Civilised countries do not pose a threat to their neighbours. Aggressors usually argue that their forces are for defence.
Your too busy giving rapists a new house
Its time to fund our military properly. The Got and MOD is to blame for not doing this and for reducing/disbanding regiments. They also are responsible for the contracting out of services which is a bleeding disgrace, not working and a detriment to our military. Time to get us back on track.
Gork and Mork? It looks like they have turned their backs on you. )) Nothing will help you anymore. ))
Frankly, you just don't have the money. You don't even have enough houses!
How much higher income tax do you want me to pay?
We are not a super power. We have to prioritise and recognise that.
We have a monarchy, it has persistently fostered delinquence in youth. How can you have a functioning army when there is nothing to fight for?
@JustBadly what's the monarchy got to do with youth problems? The monarchy doesn't even have any power😂
The other half of the problem is that we no longer have the industrial base to build procured equipment. Deindustrialisation, especially the criminal destruction of the British steel industry, means we CANNOT rebuild the armed forces.
We do not have the ship building capacity to expand the Royal Navy - the existing yards are booked out for years to come.
We CANNOT build our own tanks or fighting vehicles because we have no steel industry any more and high velocity tank guns require precise and highly skilled metallurgy to produce.
This is a nation with one fang left.
Good Grief when will someone sort this mess out?
You can help by signing up for the army today. It's only 15:10 and your local recruitment center closes at 17:00
it's been said the government spends 2% on defence but in that 2% defence is included non defence assets the government has included lots of other non defence expenditure to make it look like we are spending the 2% on defence but if you was to dig deep in to what they are including in there cost it would probably be only 1.5% on actual defence
Yes I read that, But what are they spending it on?
It is almost like Russia and China have been deciding our Defense posture. They couldn't have wished for better defense policy making by Westminster.
The British character is and always has been, when something happens then we will do something about it. I would like to know how many immigrants would be prepared to fight for the UK.
If those men of the past could see what the world would become from their actions, not one of them would of taken a single step up the beaches.
When a we going to hear a SERVING general say this? those of us interested in defence have known this for years!
Any serving general who says it will become an ex-general overnight.
@@Renegade1127 I doubt it, would look rather bad but, even so, the guy at the top only has a couple of years to serve, he should put principles first.
no more fish and chips lands... time to pull the finger out !
Fr. And we need a better government as well. None of this labour or conservative crap. They are useless idiots who just bicker and back-stab each other. We need real politicians and real leaders.
Fish finger?
@@qasimmir7117 sure, those too.
Every politician that has seen this happen over the years should be jailed for treason
As much as I dislike the guy, I have to agree with Trump. This is exactly what he was complaining about when he was complaining about NATO. And the UK is one of the better nations in spending. Let that sink in- one of the BETTER ONES. Depressing.
France spends less yet as much more military readiness...
As soon as you said trump I switched off! Most of the US NATOs contribution isn't spent in Europe! That's a fact!
@@devchannel5359they cant even defend their own streets
@@garagenigelThey still flipped the majority of the bill
That you have TDS isnt our problem
It's the same in all of Europe as well. Endless austerity measures have also not only degraded various armed forces but all public services as well. It's the logical outcome of a philosophy that suggests 'the market knows best.' Well, many shareholders have had every reason to believe that, the rest of us has been thrown under the bus. Government is not the solution to every problem and a lot of red tape certainly isn't, but 'the market' hasn't been the panacea either. Time for a sound reevaluation of who should do what and how things should be funded. A low tax, low regulations and small (i.e. incompetent) government societal structure now shows that even the most basic of public tasks have been sacrificed for the sake of private profits. Time to reverse that trend to a more reasonable and balanced state of affairs.
Well, the US approach has been commercialization and privatization of capability. I work in A&D and for decades what we heard from the generals was the magic word "COTS" - Commercial Off the Shelf. They kept hammering us to make commercial products with a military angle. It worked.
@@Gnosticware Yes, but at a cost, for shareholders wanted it to be delivered 'lean' - meaning with as little as a workforce possible.
Understandably, I must say, since governments, especially in Western Europe weren't exactly forthcoming with orders on which suppliers could rely. But the fact that some major defence companies outsourced parts of their production to low wage countries, such as China, was a bridge too far imho. I remember a decade or so ago that AH-64D Apaches had made in China processors in them, that turned out to have a few 'backdoors' which made them vulnerable to all kinds of cyber warfare by China.
Keeping costs as low within reasonable limits, certainly, that makes sense. Innovation, that's the market's forte, I agree. When it comes to continuity, responsiveness to geopolitical situations and to commitment to national interests... I tend to believe that shareholders know only allegiance to their assets and an easy way off to some bounty island with very favorable tax exemptions.
I guess we need both government (and if at all possible, a well led one, not by the current generation of politicians) and private enterprise, favorably in a relationship where they reinforce each other's strengths and compensate for their mutual shortcomings. And to the benefit of all, not just the very happy few.
@@Pincer88 Focus on bottom line is _exactly_ the reason COTS works and has been so successful here. For a primer go look at SpaceX which was born out of a NASA commercialization program. Aerospace lift $/kg was always too expensive not even including inevitable overruns. Now the old school rocket companies and countries are done for.
Unfortunately, the British Armed Forces need more of everything, yesterday!
its not chronic underspending since the end of the cold war, its chronic underspending since the start of the 80´s.
Coupled with a disastrous procurement policy since the 60´s
No country is ever prepared for war unless it is the aggressor.
South korea are not the aggressors but more prepared 2x from UK
@@hanzo2238 They live across the peninsula from NK
Except some former soviet satellite conturies,like Poland or Romania,wich never trusted Russia and keep arming. It results they were right. Any of those could probably beat Russia alone.
@@hanzo2238 English not your first language? In English we would say 'than the UK' Please note we do not live next to our potential aggressor, we defeated and civilized them centuries ago. Test us like Hitler did in 1939 and see how that goes.
“si vis pacem, para bellum”
Every time and every country prepared for war.
Thank you from a Canadian, I have felt for years that Canada has been doing the same thing for decades, sadly. I think most democracies (except the US) display the same tendencies, defence is not popular with electorates who simply don't want to think about it.
Britons are good at drinking beer ! 😅
As a Brit, I can confirm I hate tea
Asians are good at eating rice! 😅
@@StayWoke240 no, that's bats
@@LewisNuke92bats eat rice?
@@StayWoke240 think about it.....
The tories are to blame for this
the govt you know of has nothing to do with anything. its those who are really in power, and to them everything is going according to plan.
Labour as well!!...
But mostly the Tories. The 2010 defence review was the main cause of the mess we’re in today. It made the decision that we weren’t going to need to fight high end wars in Europe.
@@ChalkyRN George Robertson started the rot in 1998.
@@nikolaucznaum4312 Christ, if you want to do that it was Tom King in 1990 with options for change and the peace dividend. The difference is that everyone else just cut, 2010 changed the model of defence to not prepare for pier on pier conflict.
This is so embarassing for the Great Britain, especially the British Royal Marines beat the U.S. Marines in the physical strength contest in Quantico Marine Corps base when I was there. The leadership on the top needs to shape up like the British Royal Marines.
We need to start being more careful in who we vote into government. 14 years of tory cuts has left us vulnerable to attack.
This is all very strange really. They must have known there was a growing risk of war with Russia for many years. I appreciate that most peoples political memory only goes back two editions of the Daily Mail or the Guardian, but the situation in eastern Europe has been simmering for decades now. It's as if they want to lose a war 😕
Complacency. There were plenty of warnings, not very much action.
@@AK-us2diSame with the US, but the US always stands at the ready. Europe is beginning to wake up the the menace that is vladimir putin. He will be about as well-remembered as that Austrian painter.
@@Rocket_scientist_88correction Putin will be remembered like Stalin Uraaa 💪 🇷🇺
@@JDDC-tq7qm As a tyrant worse than Hitler?
We were nowhere near ready for world war 2 and yet we rallied and won out. Fact is the water around this Island is worth more than its weight in gold when it comes to defence.
But do still have the resources you got on ww2? I bet UK can only rely on US, btw why your aircraft carrier is always empty???
"We were nowhere near ready for world war 2 and yet we rallied and won out" - when America joined. The UK is at it's best at the side of the US, the DOD warning should send fear through the heart of the government.
But it isn’t 1939 anymore and the UK simply no longer has the industrial might in order to quickly build sufficient arms to defend the nation.
The constant erosion of our professional military by consecutive governments due to complacency around relaxing global tensions, until recently, and having US backing….
In history, how many times has Britain been invaded prior to the Normans. Frankly I have lost count. My ancestors have been killed and the woman raped by most of Europe. Don't think for one minute that it can't happened again, as that's loser think.
Issue is our government never thought for a second a ww3 could break out so it lowered it's budgets so it can fight isis etc but not russia or china or iran. We need to be spending much more
WAR? With who, wtf, war? Bloody hell
How exactly can Britain be invaded, and by who?
China or the US would probably be the only 2 militaries that could land enough troops there, but even then... it would be extremely difficult
An invasion isn’t necessary. You can be isolated and choked out.
France, Germany, Russia, and possibly Holland.
Swarm of rubber boats from ....
God knows who!
@@projectcerebus Hopefully their grasp of the English langauge and its grammar is better than yours.
The term or rather the phrase you hopelessly grasping about for is, "God know WHERE!" not who........
Were we meant to be surprised by this?
This guy is spot on. You have to ask the question, why they don't want too?
The term “lions for lambs” comes to mind.
Well, what does anyone seriousky expect when every establishment has been infiltrated by little hats and their islamic allies?
Way too many pounds put into unnecessary carries and subs.
we are an Island, our whole defence comes in the water first you have no clue sign out of youtube
Nah, it goes to rich donors in the form of PPE contracts and the like
Absolutely agree 100% and we need to get more subs as quickly as physically possible. Our whole defence relies on them more than ever makes the media. @@BILLYRFC99
How was successive governments allowed to destroy the military?!!!
“bUt We hAvE tHe sAs” every British person .
United we stand us stand with UK side by side we will fight alongside our brothers from across the pond but please step your game up UK if anything stock up on small arms and ammunition of all types especially artillery and train citizens militia similar to what Finland and Poland have been doing so if needed they are already trained and if you can't build and sustain a huge military build a lot more munition manufacturers to help sustain the Alliance stocks and also specialize in certain capabilities that are valuable in Modern Warfare
Cheers mate I’ll give rishi a bell and let him know what we need to do.
We don’t need ww3 capability we need to stop thinking we’re the worlds police. Russian never called me a detestable white man. A Russian never said I can’t have a job because I’m not a minority. A Russian never told me I need to hate myself for my country’s past. This isn’t our war. China are too big for the UK to have any major impact in a war other than nuclear arms and just well trained personnel strategically placed. Stop thinking the world needs war, it doesn’t.
@@Aaron19987You sound like the Brits in 1937… “this isn’t our war, that whole business in Czechoslovakia…”
DID YOU LEARN NOTHING, MATE??? Did you learn nothing from Neville Chamberlin’s infamous mistake?? Did you learn nothing from history at all? Do you know history?
Or are you just another russian troll, pretending to be British? I’ll go with this one. 😊 Nice try, Ivan, but I DO think the British learned their lessons from WWII and they know better than to “do nothing”.
You almost had me there but you used a couple British phrases incorrectly. I’ll leave it to you to determine which ones they were, Ivan.
@@Aaron19987 nobody's asking for war but being prepared is better than just letting your Invader take over and Russia may have not personally threaten you but he has threatened UK and the rest of Europe and us many times just watch their state media on what they think of everyone else
@@Aaron19987 nobody's asking for war and nobody's threatening anybody else besides Russia. being prepared is better than just letting your Invader take over and watch Russian State media and you will know what they think of UK and the rest of Europe and us you don't have to have a huge military to defend your own country
Well Ukraine has shown us what we have to do and that is become the builder of the most sophisticated defence and attack drones. Forget the 'Big War Machines' they are a total waste of money. ie Tanks, Carriers, Fighter Bombers etc etc. Small low cost drones are where the future of warfare lies and Russia can have its 10,000 tanks so long as we have the best drones.
Room temperature IQ take
The Royal Navy is one of our biggest assets.
Yes, you are right, partially. Drones have been important in Ukraine at halting the Russian army and slowing down land operations, but not much more, honestly. Ukraine 's counteroffensive last summer was an utter failure, as they lacked enough man power and armor to carry out such complicated feat. Which demonstrates the necessity to still have, in the drone era, a properly equipped land army, capable of carrying out land operations. You inevitably need armored vehicles for that, in good quantity and quality
Drones are just little electric aircraft, they are not super weapons. Everything can and will generate a counter measure. If you think drones alone can win wars, that's just stupid. The big lesson learned in Ukraine is that both sides continue to be lead by Soviet Doctrine and Tactics, which is why you see zero combined arms actions; mass coordinated attacks and break throughs, encirclements etc., like a Western NATO country would do. In the end, it's the people on the ground and in-charge that are fighting this war poorly on both sides. Just like if you gave a caveman a M-16, he would use it as a club.
How about we dont fight our brothers?
"..the British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.." - Duke of Wellington.
Same thing happened in Canada. Our CAF is a degraded joke... more concerned with tampons in the mens bathrooms than helping our allies.
How Many trained soldiers do you have in UK?we here in FINLAND🇫🇮 HAVE OVER MILLION SOLDIERS ARMED AND TRAINED IF NEEDED.And we have only 5.7Million citizens
UK has 75,000 soldiers out of a population of 67 million, a small army compared to most European armies.
@@CH1LDOFTHEMOON sad
@@JustTweetAway very!
but you have thousand km borders lines with Russia, Britain have the sea
The difference is the Brits can send threre troops to any point on the globe and the Fins are lucky if they can find thier way home, it's pitch black up there for six months of the year
Nice of use to let our enemies know
True, there's no way they could work it out for themselves.
The WORLD already knew.
You think this CZcams video let the enemies know? Lol. It’s been known for many years. Every major country has intelligence services that keep tabs on other countries fighting capabilities. No need to tell them they already know.
Yeah cause Russia doesn't know right😂
Don’t worry baby Brit…. Just be glad that Daddy has got your back 🫡🇺🇸💪🏼
With respect to the general, he and the leaders like him should have been shouting from the rooftops every time a cut was mentioned. There 65million undefended people, really? Why for goodness sake?
I thought this was a given years ago. People mocked reports that indicated that the UK’s military is no longer a top-level fighting force. Reacting on emotions and nostalgia of what the British military used to be. Not 400 years ago but a couple of decades ago.
Only Reform UK will reform our Military's strength...
Good joke 😂
Reform lead by a Russian Shill
Don't worry, when Scotland and Wales get their independence their Armed Services will save the day! The Scottish 🏴 Army and the Welsh Air force are second to none! 😅
You die hards want independent yet the majority of your co-patriots don't! Wales is perfectly happy with the status quo! So your claim is utter nonsense! Besides those that leave the 🇬🇧 union won't survive financially!
@@jetster785 totally agree with you, it was a joke
About bloody time, they hid in their hills when the Romans and Normans came...
@@jetster785 The latest National poll in Wales showed that 23 percent wanted independance the highest percentage since records have been kept.
With an Indian prime minister, no you can't defend yourselves.
The army should focus on the main threats. Who wants to invade Britain? How? How do you stop them. These are the key questions.
BUT DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH, DIVERSITY!
As a former army chief, he'll know the obvious importance in times like these, for keeping the strength of our forces secret. What's he going to reveal next? The weakest points to give the enemy the best advantage? Loose talk costs lives.
Agree 100%. Or else, he is deliberately misinforming the public to throw off the russians…? I still find it hard to believe that the British are unprepared.
Don’t be silly anyone can see the number of battalions the British Army has and where they are garrisoned/ deployed from Forces TV!
The enemy already knows. He isn’t giving away any secrets.
If you walk around without your pants on, for all to see, it's not a secret, give me a break.
The russians know what red troop 22 sas have had for breakfast,don't kid yourself that the UK can keep secrets! There's always a Tory around to "lose" a laptop!
Oh dear, and it falls on Labourstan lap
Britain doesn't have an army it has a home guard at best.
Britain is broken Britain needs Reform
Realy , Farage , a man who shares the same soap as Putin , and the orange Tyrant in the USA
We are not in danger of been invaded.
We already are ……..
Ruzzia has mined critical infrastructure all over the seas. Pipelines and telecommunication cables. It went on for the past 10 years.
It seems that the british armed forces don't even have a plan of how our armed forces should look. For example, it's no good putting scarce resources into expensive tanks if cheap drones are more effective. They need to present the incoming government with a viable plan so they can be confident about what they are being asked to pay for.
Ive known this for YEARS the Europeans got very dependent on US military assistance and let their own armies decline, if their own forces cant hold the line long enough for Americans to arrive then they have no hope.
We can’t defend our own homeland yet nobody is attacking us 😂😂😂
Name a time and place and watch how many ordinary British come to defend, 3 years on Russia with one of the biggest army’s in the world allegedly can’t beat Ukraine, wtf is this nonsense about British not being able to defend, our drunken football fans could destroy the Russian army in 1 day 😂😂😂😂
You are full of keek.
Why don’t they then
@@StayWoke240 stay woke mate stay woke, life will be easier for that that smooth brain of yours, remember what happens last time, the Russia football lads knew the English lads had been kept home, the Russian’s still went to beat up old men and family’s even tho the English football lads had been kept back at home was the only way to stop them killing the Russians.
Russia is fighting nato, UK and the US via the proxy Ukraine. It would have demolished Ukraine if it wasn’t for this support.
@@StayWoke240I mean the last time the English lads went to fight the Russians the football association banned the English lads from going not the Russians…..tells you all we need to know while the Russians knew we wasn’t coming they still went to beat up old age pensioners and family’s having a good time….
Stop sending money to Ukraine.
That’s not the problem here.
A travesty … really …. An indictment
You can help by signing up for the army today. It's only 15:10 and your local recruitment center closes at 17:00
What I am hearing says that the manufacturing sector isn't capable or has no determination to produce what is needed in a certain timeframe? Is Britain working around the clock or sitting and relaxing too much? 2.5 years have gone by with vacillating decisions that brings the country to the present reality? The gentleman being interviewed has clarified in light to historical facts where Britain stood and stands at the moment.
We have more taxes than ever. Police need more money, NHS wants more, education needs more, defence is under funded, wtf is happening with our money.
The decades old erosion of investment in the military is coming home to roost. UK procurement is appalling with huge amounts of money put into badly planned projects with the people in charge changing on the standard posting rosta. In addition to this, service personnel have systematically had their terms and conditions eroded to such an extent that it makes the idea of service life appear unsatisfactory. Without a big rethink, clever investment in materiel and personnel this spiral of degradation will continue. Lord Dannatt has hit the nail on the head..The longer this continues the more vulnerable we become in a very fragile geopolitical world..
A sad day for our country and for all those outstanding men and women who serve in our armed forces. Now is the time for action, a reality check is needed.
We never learn from history. Increase your spending, institute mandatory service or you'll pay a severe price later on. The world is a hard place.
yeah and say that on a national TV its really smart its like opening a doors for everyone.
Wow
The fact your thumbnail is of French tanks show a lot about the accuracy of the sun 😂
Industry cant supply the armed forces because we have no Industry. Its a hollow shell .
Been saying this years wake up before we get destroyed by our loontic politics gone mad and military wake up
How do we spend 60 billion each year and not have an adequate military
Its odd how so many in the UK have this absolute conviction that they need to maintain a global, imperial war fighting capability when they no longer have the empire. The UK is lucky enough to live in a quiet neighborhood where it faces no direct threats. It only needs a sufficient military sizeable enough to maintain key skillsets so it can expand again if needed.
Yet rather than taking the win, so many in the UK political and military classes are desperately hunting around the world to get involved in fights that have zero benefit to the UK national interest and inevitably end in humiliating and costly defeats. Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, now Ukraine and next China. This guy sagely warning about the lessons of history needs to learn from the last 20 years.
Why this people live in Europe fight endlessly, savage i guess
If you think wars are limited to Europe than you are very ignorant of world history.
It’s been that way for decades!
One of the very few ex military leaders whom has the respect of us veterans and who had it by those serving at the time. Sadly we are no where near capable of defending our nation let alone doing more than that. We need to move urgently and strengthen as a national top priority. Being an island only helps to a point.
If Britain had been defeated by the French during Napoleonic times, millions of ordinary folks in Britain would have had the benefit of the code civil, instead of being subjected to the dictatorial and unjust rule of the British aristocracy that treated ordinary folks like dirt. That particular "victory" was not in the interest of ordinary brits!.
Why would they say this!! Talk about openly put your nation down to the world!!
“World at War” wasn’t trademarked? How do they have this name?
So what will we do when our enemies activate the fifth column in ENGLAND, well over 80,000 young men who would certainly come to arms if asked.?
VOTE REFORM
History doesn't repeat itself, but it definitely rhymes...
I mean when have they EVER been ready for war??😂😂😂
Say the army chief who was partially responsible for running the army into the ground. He still got paid and took that Knighthood.
We're definitely not a tier 1 anymore, the last time we We're Tier1 was in the cold war and during the 9/11 decade. And yet we haven't got the cohones to enforce a buffer zone to stop the illegal Migrants crossing the shores.
If we're ever invaded and occupied by a foreign enemy state, we'll be the first to handover the key's to them, without a shot being allowed to be fired. 😢