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Originally Posted by eddie
Don't know about the UK for certain, but I have read where a lot of countries in the EU are having trouble getting young men and women to join the military. If they had more ships, who would man them. And I do realize how expensive these new systems are. Getting kind of scary to see all of this happening over there.
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Indeed, the costs. But I do not buy that a small technological advantage alone can compensate for getting outnumbered signficantly. War needs the material substance of the warrying faction to sustain a certain amount of losses. If you are in danger that every single loss youn suffer takes you out of the game already cannot be compensated for form reserve that do not exist, then you have a problem. Becasue in war against a highly developed enemy, there will be losses. Especially in maritime warfare of modern technology. Should I quote Admiral Gorshkov here?
Only solution: Do not maximise costs over maximising tech options, but chose for a bit cheaper stuff, and increase your numbers.
On the problem of manning ships, servicing in the armed forces must be more attractive. Its a service that is not just a job like any other - people have to risk their lives amd health and mental peace, maybe. I am against "statehood" in principle, but if you do not join my concerns over states and accept states instead, then you shoud consider to allow the state drafting amongst women and men. Ideally you have several rivalling security agencies, but that again has its own implications, not all of them easy to solve.
Maybe guaranteeing the integrity and safety of own borders and the sovereignty of the regional population over the land they claim their home and country - the one duty that Merkel and the EU is so spectacularly failing over, and willfully - is the only argument possible in defending the existence of at least a minimal state. If so, state must be given the tools to fulfill this demand to enforce the protecxiton of its borders. If it fails to do so, or is not allowed these means and ways, then a state in my zero-state-thinking is not needed at all. That is true for mass migration - but also true for military capacities that are sufficient to fight off any possible foreign military aggressor. I assume there is something similiar in British laws...!?