Critical Mass: UK armed forces don't have it
We’re potentially at a crucial juncture. Enthused by his foreign adventures and how he is received overseas, Starmer talks openly about putting boots on the ground and planes in the air in Ukraine. But he’s also commissioning a review of our preparedness for a Russian attack at home. (‘But …‘? Maybe that should be ‘So‘ …)
Well let’s save time & money and just tell him: we’re horribly, horribly exposed. No AA defence to speak of, for starters. Much-denuded magazine depth. Hugely vulnerable infrastructure. Fewer battlefield drones than the Ukrainians expend in a day – and no experience or doctrine as to how to use the ones we have, past “experiments” having been a pitiful failure (Watchkeeper, this means you.) No indigenous manufacturing capability to produce 90% of what we need. Population demographics that could not underpin any type of call-up of the type needed to provide mass infantry. (Don’t be under any kind of illusion that drone warfare doesn’t need many grunts at all.)
And – here’s the biggie – no longer the critical mass in the standing army & navy (and probably not airforce, either) to mount either a major, sustained operation, nor a rapid build-up. To the extent we are valued and even admired as a military power that can (genuinely) punch about its weight, it’s because of (a) a number of specialisms that have – thus far – survived; (b) some plum overseas assets (Cyprus being top of the list); and (c) the ability to operate – thus far! – with the USA at our backs. But – sustaining them gets progressively more difficult as critical mass seeps away. Oh – and aside possibly from our increasingly worried Australian cousins, nobody is the slightest bit impressed by Gordon Bloody Brown’s bloody aircraft carriers – a drain on the defence budget and an all-round vainglorious embarrassment.
We’ve talked about critical mass before, in several contexts but most specifically including the military. Here’s a really interesting contribution on the subject. Read it and weep.
Now, Starmer, how’s your grandiose foreign policy / strategy looking?
ND
Source: http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2025/05/critical-mass-uk-armed-forces-dont-have.html
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