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Another interesting video by Mark Felton.

And also pertinent given the current discussion about NATO’s readiness.

1 posted on 02/17/2025 12:06:44 PM PST by Leaning Right
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To: Leaning Right

the war between Russia and Ukraine seems to prove both are worthless in todays’ world.


2 posted on 02/17/2025 12:09:29 PM PST by MNDude
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Sounds like a saying I used to hear when I was over in US Army Europe. I don’t know if it was true or not, but the saying was that there were more generals in Europe than there were machine gunners


3 posted on 02/17/2025 12:10:00 PM PST by suasponte137
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2 aircraft carriers

6 destroyers

8 frigates

8 or 9 subs.

The Royal Navy has decent capabilities for its size, which isn’t much.


4 posted on 02/17/2025 12:13:37 PM PST by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. )
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I thought that was the US Navy.


5 posted on 02/17/2025 12:15:58 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (Donald John Trump. First man to be Elected to the Presidency THREE times since FDR.)
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That’s just embarrassing. Our military is ridiculously top heavy and bloated with over forty 4 stars with a total military of about 1.3 million. For comparison’s sake we had 7 in World War II with a military over 10 times the size of our current one.


6 posted on 02/17/2025 12:16:20 PM PST by FLT-bird
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Good that islamists don’t have access to a useful navy.


8 posted on 02/17/2025 12:19:01 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Nitzy: New and Improved! Now with only 66% anti-semitic posts!)
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We have 44 four star generals now. During WWII we had 5.


9 posted on 02/17/2025 12:19:22 PM PST by Karl Spooner
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The U.S. Navy has the same problem. The same U.S. Naval Proceedings issue which lists the commissioned ships also has the pictures of all its admirals.


14 posted on 02/17/2025 12:49:16 PM PST by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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"There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today."
- Admiral Sir David Beatty
21 posted on 02/17/2025 5:18:04 PM PST by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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