I thought that was the Icelandic defence strategy? Apparently it was set off accidentally about a year ago, they are still clearing the wreckage

The Swiss - 'Anyone who attacks us won't be able to lay claim to Roman Polanski! Er...'

Can't do without the Army.

If WE get invaded, then there's not a lot the Navy can do about that.

We would have to be invaded by sea for it to be successful.

Or by air.

The Threat the navy provides to a potential invader is our subs sitting off their home coast popping missiles carry all sorts of goodies onto them.

But arguments like that are useless.

Instead of suggesting getting rid of the RAF you're suggesting rolling them up into a giant force with the Army/Navy.

Did I misread the OP?
Save from defence cuts isn't the same thing as save from being eliminated/rolled into one of the others.

I vote for the Navy though. Not only do they allow for projection of power abroad but they can defend the country from invasion by both air and sea (the warships have anti-air capabilities and carriers support aircraft after all).

Invasion by tunnels though. Now there's a problem.

How about meh?

Make love not war. Start being nice to people and maybe they won't wanna attack us. Works for Costa Rica....

You could prevent that with a couple of snow machines.

I'm suggesting you get rid of the RAF as a separate service. As well as a massive chunk of their expenditure which is on men & machines we effectievly have no use for - e.g pure air superiority fighters for example.

If you did that, you'd have to expand the other two somewhat, but you'd still make billions of pounds in savings every year. You can't throw away the army, that's not really feasible at all. You could get rid of the navy to a degree, but you'd still need some maritime capability so you'd end up having a fairly large & capable marine corps, much like America does. The service with the most 'fat' is the RAF and it's also the service which the others do some of the job of anyway when they feel like it.

The RAF would cease to exist. Some of it's jobs would then be done by the other two. Some of them we just wouldn't do (because frankly we don't do them anyway, we just have the massively expensive equipment to do them on the off chance we might). Result : maximum savings.

Jon

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