Posted on 04/06/2007 5:50:30 PM PDT by racing fan
London, April 6 (Prensa Latina) The British Navy suspended its maneuvers Friday in the Persian Gulf, where Iranian authorities captured 15 soldiers of the European country for entering their territorial waters.
The chief of the Royal Navy, Adm. Jonathon Band, considered it necessary to suspend the drills for the moment, and called for reviewing British patrol regulations.
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The wrong message to send the thugs.
Sounds like they are getting ready to buy those French built carriers after all.
The British are officially French now. A white feather needs to be given to every British citizen.
Geesh, morons! Why don’t they just fly a white flag?
Secret deal anyone!
That’s what Lord Nelson would have done....NOT!
Now that the Iranian Hitler has redeemed himself, we can rest easy. /sarc
I searched for Admiral Band and found this article, from Jane’s Navy International, dated November 28, 2006:
UK navy chief fuels ‘quality versus quantity’ debate
By Richard Scott
The UK Royal Navy’s (RN’s) most senior officer has argued that the service should accept sacrificing quality for quantity if it is to maintain a surface fleet of sufficient size to contribute to maritime security operations on a global scale.
Speaking at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) ‘Future Maritime Operations’ conference in London on 22 November, Chief of Naval Staff and First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Jonathon Band said that while the RN had previously insisted on configuring its forces for high-intensity warfighting, the “financial and security” realities had persuaded him that there was a case for a larger number of less capable units for tasking in support of maritime interdiction and constabulary operations.
Adm Band’s comments come as staff in the Ministry of Defence and the RN assess capability and force-mix options for a projected Future Surface Combatant (FSC) to enter service in the 2017-20 timeframe.
The size of the RN’s frigate/destroyer force has seen a significant decline over the past decade, falling from 35 ships in 1996 to 25 today. Admiral Sir Alan West, Adm Band’s predecessor as Chief of Naval Staff and First Sea Lord, was public in his opinion that this level is too small to meet the full spectrum of taskings, noting that the figure of 25 was based on analysis of high-intensity warfighting tasks alone and did not address wider maritime security needs, or make any allowance for attrition.
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The chief of the Royal Navy, Adm. Jonathon Band, considered it necessary to suspend the drills for the moment, and called for reviewing British patrol regulations.
Who knows, we might be surprised, I doubt they would be
making them more lax eh.
Iranians could be getting unintended consequences...
The Muslims must have the UK by the short hairs, or else UK promised to evacuate the gulf in order to get the hostages back. I don’t understand why or how they were captured to begin with. Just watch for ballooning Muslim takeover in UK. I wonder how the Queen is taking all this.
The Muslims must have the UK by the short hairs, or else UK promised to evacuate the gulf in order to get the hostages back. I don’t understand why or how they were captured to begin with. Just watch for ballooning Muslim takeover in UK. I wonder how the Queen is taking all this.
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She probably isn’t taking it well. It doesn’t bode well for the UK no matter what. Maybe she will be the last British monarch?
The wrong message to send the thugs.
Exactly, and the British Navy should be reviewing the PROTECTION that it did NOT give to its people...my guess is some heads are rolling over that poor military decision and planning....
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Hopefully some heads will roll, but who knows.
Rule, Britannia … bye, bye!
“The chief of the Royal Navy, Adm. Jonathon Band, considered it necessary to suspend the drills for the moment, and called for reviewing British patrol regulations.”
Need new regs????
NEXT TIME SHOOT THE BA$T^%&$ before they can steal hostages!!!!!!
Unfortunately, it does indeed smack of a deal.
If the British stay backed off, then truly the West is in far more trouble than I would have thought.
Bad move.
Pathetic! This incident just keeps looking weaker and weaker for England. “When challenged, give up” is the MO being displayed here. Watching their “officers” explain why they didn’t even try to fight in the press conference was disgusting.
What happened to our once brave allies? Is this the same nation that survived the Battle of Britain?
England had better re-grow a spine before they are under Sharia Law.
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