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Posted on 06/29/2026 9:57:44 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Britain is announcing one of the biggest shake-ups of its armed forces in decades, and it’s using the experience of the war in Ukraine as a model.
The Defence Investment Plan, set to be published on Tuesday by Prime Minister Keir Starmer in one of his last acts before stepping down, shows the U.K. is copying Ukraine’s successful playbook to focus on “cheap systems destroying high-value targets and innovation cycles measured in weeks, not years,” the Ministry of Defence said on Monday.
The move indicates how the government intends to meet the goals of last year’s Strategic Defence Review, which warned that "state conflict has returned to Europe," after a funding crunch that prompted former Defence Secretary John Healey unexpectedly quit earlier this month.
For decades, much of the U.K.’s military strength has rested on sea power, with large, expensive warships like aircraft carriers and submarines able to launch nuclear missiles forming a central part of what Britain can bring to bear in peace and war.
But Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has upended the old model for European defense. It exposed the vulnerability of expensive systems, underlined the need for large supplies of cheap drones and munitions, and accelerated the shift toward autonomous systems, AI-enabled targeting and quick battlefield innovation.
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I think the main thing Britain could learn from Ukraine is its press gang technology.
Millions of Ukrainians fled the country rather than stay and fight. But for those who are still trapped there, government vans regularly grab screaming citizens where they await death and dismemberment in trenches.
Britain is doing everything it can to provoke a real war with Russia, spending billions on slaying as many Russians as possible. But Britains would have a similar level of enthusiasm for enlisting as Ukrainians.
So bring on the vans for Britain. The future is coming quickly
You typing in a loony bin?
The UK should spend billions on salvaging its own immigrant infested country or it will be another 3rd world shxthole...it’s damn close now.
Moscow suburb.
Does this mean the U.S. has to pay for their military too?
the way things are going, sooner or later the UK military will be used to round up white Brits posting mean things on the internet about the 1000s of 3rd-world parasites and savages being imported...
Nothing will help England at this point. Their “ Army” is a joke, their total active roles show an embarrassing 144,000 total, of which maybe, just maybe 10 percent are frontline combat arms. They would last maybe, just maybe two weeks against Russia’s 1.4 million active ( 2 million reserves)....
https://www.globalmilitary.net/countries/gbr/
https://militarycompare.com/russia-military-strength/
It is best England stays on their island and keeps their mouths shut.
Oh, boy...
Per AI...
“UK military pensions are a key, structural component of the nation’s financial commitments to the alliance. Because NATO calculates defense expenditures differently than individual nations, it requires member states to include the retirement pay of retired military personnel when determining whether they meet the alliance’s spending targets.”
If accurate...
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What army?
What army?
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That could be said of all the EU member states, with the exception of Poland.
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