Doesn’t really matter. Britain has never been and should not aspire to be a land power. We are a maritime nation, and should focus our efforts on the Navy and RAF. Our RAF already covers more per square mile than the USAF in terms of planes defending each square mile of British home territory. The navy needs more investment, but with two aircraft carriers there is the basis to build more escorts around it over the coming years as China and Russia become more aggressive.
As for other commentators describing the Royal Navy as “third rate” there isn’t another navy, other than the US Navy that is able to deploy as potent a task force outside its home waters and sustain it as the Royal Navy. There are larger navies that are numerically larger but qualitatively inferior and lack the logistical reach in support ships and overseas bases. The PRCN might be a big dog in the SCS but if China tried to take on the Royal navy in the mid atlantic it would have a tough job on its hands because Chinese subs are crap and we would know where they were long before they knew where ours where.
Sir, in June 1945 the British Army was 2.9 million damn good fighting men. Today, 75 short years later, it’s fixing to be 75,000. Arguably, that’s not enough men to defend your own homeland/country to say nothing of necessary equipment or fighting overseas as Britain did when they helped us fight the Japanese and the communists in Korea and Vietnam. Most recently they’ve helped out in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In Europe, America absorbed 552,117 casualties and 104,812 of those were our sons killed in action.
Liberalism, socialism, marxism, political correctness and welfare are the cancers that have ravaged your country so badly it can’t afford a respectably sized military force. Most thinking Americans are just sad to see that.