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  1. Aaron Fox

    What could Her Majesty's Armed Forces afford with 3% of GDP?

    Because they got dragged into those wars, not those wars had them drag Europe. Both wars only got to the colonies because either a) incidents there opened up a front or b) because one of the principal players decided to drag it out of Europe. Also, WW2 was brought on in part by resource...
  2. Aaron Fox

    What could Her Majesty's Armed Forces afford with 3% of GDP?

    You would be surprised mate. Very surprised. A quick gander through history will tell you that what you think will happen won't happen. Hell, the 7 Years War and Napoleonic Wars were basically World War 1 and World War 2 without the title and war is almost cyclic, with the time between major...
  3. Aaron Fox

    What could Her Majesty's Armed Forces afford with 3% of GDP?

    MAD is part of the reason (alongside the US forcing world trade at the barrel of a metaphorical gun) we haven't had a WW3 yet, get rid of MAD, basically turn the world into Strangereal in how often a world war happens.
  4. Aaron Fox

    What could Her Majesty's Armed Forces afford with 3% of GDP?

    From what I can tell, you are better off trying to list what didn't go wrong in that administration. Think of the Thatcher Government as a British GOP without the explicit mustache-twirling evil that dominates the current crop of the GOP after they kicked out all the sane people (I distinctly...
  5. Aaron Fox

    What could Her Majesty's Armed Forces afford with 3% of GDP?

    You've got to remember, a lot of Britain's military problems stem from the fact that the Thatcher Government existed. She and her posse basically indirectly crippled Britain's military through their policies. Remember the L85 fiasco? It is because the Thatcher Government turned it into one via...
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